Tag Archives: Politics

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Sen. Rick Scott of Florida this week joined the ranks of Republican incumbents scrambling to strike a balance on reproductive rights, saying he opposes a November ballot i...

QUEBEC - People who harass or threaten Quebec politicians could soon be hit with a court injunction or a fine of up to $1,500, if a new bill tabled in the provincial legislature on Wednesday is adopte...

TORONTO - Ontario proposed Wednesday to allow municipalities to enact "use it or lose it" policies on developers, speed up the creation of student housing, and streamline approvals for standardized ho...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Republican lawmakers in Tennessee on Wednesday advanced legislation making it illegal for adults to help minors get an abortion without parental consent, sparking objections fr...

ATLANTA (AP) - Donald Trump said Wednesday that an Arizona law that criminalizes nearly all abortions goes too far and called on Arizona lawmakers to change it, while also defending the overturning of...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - The effort by supporters of former President Donald Trump to recall Wisconsin's top elected Republican did not gather enough signatures to trigger the recall election and therefor...

OTTAWA - The "concerns and fears" dentists are expressing about a national dental-care plan are similar to those doctors had when Canada launched medicare in the 1960s, Health Minister Mark Holland sa...

TORONTO - Ontario will support an opposition bill to declare intimate partner violence an epidemic in the province, Government House Leader Paul Calandra said Wednesday, reversing an earlier rejection...

OTTAWA - Persistent drought and months of above-average temperatures have raised the risk of a repeat of last year's record-breaking wildfires, prompting federal ministers to wave a red warning flag a...

WASHINGTON (AP) - For much of her life, Angela Crawford considered herself a fairly conservative Republican - and she voted that way. But then a wave of court rulings and Republican-led actions in sta...