Tag Archives: Politics

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - The Republican candidate in Wisconsin's closely watched U.S. Senate race emphasized this week that he doesn't oppose elderly people voting after initially saying that "almost nobo...

CALGARY - More than three dozen major water users in southern Alberta have agreed to voluntarily curb their consumption if there's a severe drought this spring or summer, but critics warn the deals wo...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia Justice Minister Brad Johns resigned Friday evening, one day after he made comments downplaying the severity of domestic violence. Premier Tim Houston announced in a brief news r...

Quebec says it will align its tax system with the federal government by increasing the percentage of capital gains subject to taxation. Like Ottawa announced in its budget Tuesday, Quebec says it will...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau again called for the de-escalation of tensions in the Middle East Friday, following an airstrike in Iran widely suspected of being a retaliatory attack by Israel...

OTTAWA - Excluding front-line supervisors at a Montreal casino from organizing under the Quebec labour-relations regime does not infringe their constitutional rights, the Supreme Court of Canada has r...

TORONTO - The consumption of alcohol will be allowed in at least one park in every Toronto ward this summer despite the objections of some city councillors. City council backed the expansion of the pr...

NEW YORK (AP) - Opening statements in Donald Trump's hush money case are set to begin next week after a jury of 12 people and six alternates was seated Friday. The seating of the jury sets the stage f...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will go before voters Tuesday in Pennsylvania's presidential primaries, a prelude to the November general election, when the com...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - The Biden administration said Friday it will restrict new oil and gas leasing on 13 million acres (5.3 million hectares) of a federal petroleum reserve in Alaska to help protect ...