Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - The claims process for a landmark "Indian hospitals" settlement opened Tuesday, nearly one year after the federal government reached an agreement with survivors on compensation. The federal g...

ST. JOHN'S - Dozens of people in eastern Newfoundland are still displaced and living in temporary housing after a series of wildfires destroyed their homes more than five months ago. Marie Kennell is ...

EDMONTON - Alberta's judges are calling for respect days after Premier Danielle Smith said she wishes she could "direct" them. The province's three chief justices, in a rare public statement, say demo...

VICTORIA - The president of the Tahltan Central Government said British Columbia shouldn't change its Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act, just as the First Nation and the provincial g...

OTTAWA - Canadians must reflect on the consequences of ignorance and hatred, Prime MInister Mark Carney said on Tuesday at a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony in Ottawa. Speaking at the event at the ...

HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia government says it disagrees with parts of an auditor general report calling on the province to be more transparent with the performance of the health-care system. In a repor...

TORONTO - Marineland has a "solid plan" to move Canada's last remaining captive whales and dolphins to several parks in the United States, Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson said Tuesday. On Monday, t...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday he told U.S. President Donald Trump personally that he meant what he said in his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last week. C...

OTTAWA - Advocates of more federal transparency are concerned a federal review of the Access to Information regime will not fix long-standing problems, and that it could even make things worse. The Tr...

VANCOUVER - A long-anticipated hearing into the police-involved death of Myles Gray in 2015 is being adjourned for four weeks, after it was derailed by an obscene remark and the subsequent resignation...