Tag Archives: Politics

The federal government is starting public consultations on the fate of Toronto's island airport, which the province wants to expand to make room for jets. Ontario Premier Doug Ford's Progressive Conse...

EDMONTON - Alberta country music artist Corb Lund says his team has collected enough signatures to compel the province to take action to stop coal mining on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains. ...

OTTAWA - The federal government says it's helping to set up evacuation centres across the country for people fleeing wildfires. At a recent news conference in Ottawa, Emergency Preparedness Minister E...

EDMONTON - Alberta's election agency is officially on the hunt for at least 60,000 people to work the fall referendum, and it's offering between $255 to $350 per day. On Oct. 19, Premier Danielle Smit...

MONCTON - Food banks in New Brunswick are receiving a provincial cash boost for the next three years. The government has announced $9 million to non-profit Feed NB to supply food banks across the prov...

TORONTO - Toronto police will work with officers from other countries to manage international fan groups during the FIFA World Cup, the force said in an update a week before the international soccer t...

HALIFAX - Unionized long-term care workers in Nova Scotia were expected Monday to begin voting on a tentative contract that could bring an end to a labour dispute now in its eighth week. The Canadian ...

OTTAWA - Extreme polarization and consensus are dangerous and a better country can only be built through the "peaceful management" of our differences, Gov. Gen. Louise Arbour said Monday in her first ...

VANCOUVER - Eldorado Gold Corp. says the first copper concentrate was produced at its McIlvenna Bay project in Saskatchewan on Sunday. McIlvenna Bay was one of the first five major projects on the fed...

RICHMOND - Tom Tang, went from being an art teacher and street portraitist in China, to living in a park in Richmond, B.C. He didn't quite understand how he ended up there. "Time all blurs together wh...