Tag Archives: Politics

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) - The man charged with starting a fire outside independent U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders' Vermont office earlier this month pleaded not guilty to a federal charge on Tuesday. Shant Mic...

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government is planning to end its ban on homegrown recreational cannabis - a move that would leave Quebec as the only province with such a restriction. "We're just allowing Man...

VANCOUVER - B.C.'s ombudsperson says the Ministry of Children and Family Development should be embarrassed by its neglect toward its commitment to reduce the practice of isolating youth in custody. Ja...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) - Democrat Sharon Tucker was sworn in Tuesday as the new mayor of Indiana's second-most populous city, nearly a month after her predecessor's death. Tucker, who had been a Fort W...

OTTAWA - An innocent man could have spent years in jail had a judge not granted him bail, a civil liberties advocate said Monday, as lawyers warned that Umar Zameer's case underscores the risks of pol...

Gary Vidal, who represents the Saskatchewan riding of Desneth-Missinippi-Churchill River in the House of Commons, says he won't seek re-election next year. Vidal said the changing geography of the nor...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - As transgender people in Louisiana watched surrounding states in the deeply conservative South implement a slew of laws targeting nearly every facet of their lives in recent ye...

VICTORIA - British Columbia has placed its proposed online harms legislation on hold after reaching an agreement with social media companies to "sit down in good faith" to find solutions on keeping pe...

OTTAWA - A global treaty to end plastic waste will not be ambitious enough if it does not include some limits on plastic production, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said Tuesday as the fourth r...

HALIFAX - The current estimate for what has become known as a scaled-down version of the Atlantic Loop electrical grid project is about $700 million, the head of Nova Scotia's private power utility sa...