Tag Archives: Politics

VANCOUVER - In November last year, American border agents ordered that a freight train crossing into the U.S. be halted. Homeland Security agent David Spitzer said in an affidavit that 13 Mexican nati...

OTTAWA - Months before British Columbia sought to scale back its drug decriminalization pilot project, the federal government's own polling suggested to officials that a majority of Canadians believed...

NEW YORK (AP) - History happened just as everyone was about to leave for the day. Judge Juan M. Merchan had already summoned Donald Trump, his legal team and prosecutors into the courtroom where the f...

REGINA - Saskatchewan teachers have rejected an offer for a new three-year agreement that had promised wage increases and measures to address classroom issues. Fifty-five per cent of teachers who vote...

OTTAWA - A Canadian immigration lawyer says Donald Trump is technically barred from crossing into Canada now that he is a convicted felon. The former U.S. president was found guilty Thursday on all 34...

OTTAWA - Deputy Speaker Chris d'Entremont says he did not approve an advertisement for a Conservative party event that led the NDP to accuse him of partisanship. The NDP said an advertisement for a pa...

CHARLOTTETOWN - The 22-year-old leader of a group protesting changes to P.E.I.'s immigration rules says he's lost almost 15 pounds since he and other immigrants started a hunger strike outside the pro...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia Education Minister Becky Druhan says the province's school lunch program will use a "pay what you can" model when it is rolled out in October. Druhan told reporters following cab...

WINNIPEG - There was acrimony in the Manitoba legislature Thursday as politicians passed a bill to designate March 31 an annual day to recognize two-spirit and transgender persons. The bill to establi...

TORONTO - Stephen Poloz is concerned about investment levels in Canada's private sector, which he says has been dampened by higher government spending and volatility in U.S. trade relations. The previ...