Tag Archives: Politics

The Alberta government is helping fund what it says is Canada's first test site for geothermal energy drilling techniques. Environment Minister Rebecca Schulz says the province will spend $750,000 to ...

OTTAWA - The notwithstanding clause should only be used as a measure of last resort, Canada's justice minister said Tuesday, after Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre suggested he wouldn't hesitate t...

HALIFAX - New data from Statistics Canada show that Nova Scotia's rates of poverty and food insecurity in 2022 were the highest of any province - and the head of the province's largest network of food...

OTTAWA - All options to eliminate plastic waste are still on the table in negotiations for a global plastic treaty, including putting legislated caps on how much plastic the world produces in the firs...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to block a Texas law requiring pornographic websites to verify the age of their users. The justices rejected an emergency appeal filed by the Fre...

OTTAWA - Canada's electronic spy agency needs to clearly spell out how its operations in cyberspace comply with international law, says a new watchdog report. The National Security and Intelligence Re...

WASHINGTON (AP) - House Democrats will vote to save Republican Speaker Mike Johnson's job should some of his fellow Republican lawmakers seek to remove him from the position, Democratic leaders said T...

OTTAWA - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland intends to ask Parliament to approve proposed changes to capital gains taxation in a stand-alone bill - a move that will force the federal Conservatives to ...

Ontario plans to begin buying up land to build a controversial highway in the Toronto area that will pave over prime farmland, Premier Doug Ford said Tuesday. The province will be meeting with landown...

The Federal Communications Commission has leveraged nearly $200 million in fines against wireless carriers AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon for illegally sharing customers' location data without...