Tag Archives: Politics

TORONTO - Five things to watch for in the Canadian business world in the coming week: Outlook survey The Bank of Canada will publish its business outlook survey and Canadian survey of consumer expecta...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney is scheduled to leave for Ankara on Monday to attend the annual NATO summit - the first visit by a Canadian prime minister to Turkey since 2015. Turkey's capital wi...

OTTAWA - The Royal Canadian Air Force and the U.S. air force appeared together in the skies over Ottawa to mark the Fourth of July, with the U.S. ambassador noting Canada will be "proud owners" of Ame...

OTTAWA - The Trump administration is hindering work at the United Nations on advancing equality, says Canada's UN Ambassador David Lametti. "There has been a general obstructionist policy, (a) cantank...

IQALUIT - A massive plan to formally guide where, how and when land and water can be used in Canada's easternmost territory has been rejected by the federal and Nunavut governments, as well as a group...

Alberta's Opposition NDP leader says Premier Danielle Smith's plan for a new pipeline has his support, but he's calling on her to be honest about how much taxpayers could be on the hook for it. Naheed...

British Columbia's NDP government has more breathing room with a two-seat majority in the legislature after adding member Amelia Boultbee, who has openly criticized her former Conservative party and i...

EDMONTON - A petition led by country musician Corb Lund to ban new coal mining on the eastern slopes of the Rockies has failed. Alberta's election agency announced Friday that Lund's petition didn't g...

OTTAWA - Heritage Minister Marc Miller says the government's widely criticized advisory council on inclusion is meant to unify Canadians in a way previous federal envoys tasked with tackling antisemit...

MONTREAL - Environmentalists are divided on whether a new funding deal reached between Quebec and the federal government is a meaningful first step to saving the province's dwindling caribou herds or ...