Tag Archives: Politics

"Hey, Doug - did you take that shot of Stanfield on the front of the Globe and Mail this morning?" We were boarding the Progressive Conservative campaign bus outside the Hotel Vancouver early on May 3...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas narrowly won his primary Tuesday against a gun-rights activist who pushed the border congressman into a bruising runoff that threatened to u...

EDMONTON - Alberta's government is limiting legislature debate time to pass four controversial bills, a tactic the Opposition New Democrats say runs roughshod over the democratic process. With the spr...

REGINA - Lawyers for several Humboldt Broncos families were in court Tuesday fighting a bid by the government of Saskatchewan to have it removed as a defendant in a lawsuit over the deadly bus crash i...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his government is "horrified" by Israeli strikes that killed civilians in Rafah earlier this week, but walked away from reporters when asked what he will do...

HALIFAX - A former lieutenant-governor of Nova Scotia has been appointed to lead the committee tracking how governments and the RCMP are responding to the inquiry into the 2020 mass shooting in Nova S...

REGINA - Saskatchewan's Opposition NDP has asked the Speaker to call a meeting so an independent investigator can be appointed to look into allegations of guns and bullying in the legislature. Democra...

OTTAWA - Conservatives say the federal government is offering "false hope" to Canadians with a national pharmacare bill that will not initially apply to a broad range of medications. The Liberals and ...

OTTAWA - Canada's privacy czar and a government official are warning that a Senate bill proposing to block minors from "sexually explicit material" online could apply to streaming services such as Net...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden will be formally nominated as the Democratic presidential nominee through a virtual roll call ahead of the party's official convention in Chicago in August - a ma...