Tag Archives: Politics

HALIFAX - A First Nation says it is blockading part of a main highway into Halifax to protest police raids against unlicensed cannabis dispensaries in Indigenous communities. Tensions have been rising...

OTTAWA - The man who announced he was seeking the Conservative nomination in Pierre Poilievre's former riding of Carleton in February now says he's dropping out of the race. Blair Turner, a police off...

TORONTO - Ontario's municipal affairs minister is proposing to appoint a slate of regional council chairs and give them additional powers, as the government has done with so-called strong mayors. The ...

QUBEC - Franois Legault is attending what is likely his last sitting at the legislature as Quebec premier. The national assembly is on recess next week and the Coalition Avenir Qubec is scheduled to c...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government proposes making it easier for federal agencies to share and reuse the personal data of Canadians as part of a major overhaul of the Privacy Act. The act governs how fed...

HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia legislature reopened with additional restrictions to the public on Thursday more than one week after a rowdy protest in the visitor galleries. House Speaker Danielle Barkhous...

EDMONTON - The Alberta government has introduced legislation to ensure children and young teens won't be able to access sexually graphic images in books at public libraries. Municipal Affairs Minister...

CALGARY - Officials lifted water restrictions in Calgary and surrounding communities on Thursday as work continues to replace an ailing water main. Residents had been asked for more than three weeks t...

DENVER (AP) - A Colorado appeals court ruled Thursday that a former county clerk convicted in a scheme that sought to prove fraud in the 2020 presidential election should be resentenced because a judg...

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear an appeal challenging the constitutionality of Canada's first-past-the-post electoral system. The system, set out in the Canada Elections Act, sees t...