Tag Archives: Politics

TORONTO - In an Italian long-term care home in Toronto, about three new non-Italian residents are admitted each month due to government changes to priority rules, leaving them confused and isolated in...

WINNIPEG - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew appeared at odds over carbon pricing Thursday. Kinew's NDP government, elected last October, is putting together a proposal to t...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A bipartisan group of rank-and-file lawmakers in Kansas scuttled a plan for cutting taxes Thursday, with Republicans defying GOP leaders and Democrats ignoring a personal appeal fr...

NEW GLARUS, Wis. (AP) - Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin, whose "go everywhere" 2018 campaign strategy became a model for how to win in battleground Wisconsin, knows her road to victory this year against...

Patients in all provinces are waiting longer for hip and knee replacements, cancer surgeries and other priority procedures than before the COVID-19 pandemic, national data shows. A report released Thu...

VANCOUVER - The mayor of Vancouver says the city is disappointed about the new location of an overdose prevention site in the downtown core. Ken Sim says in a news release that the city was not consul...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Indiana Democratic House leader state Rep. Phil GiaQuinta intends to run for Fort Wayne mayor in an upcoming caucus to replace the city's late mayor who died last week, an adviser ...

VICTORIA - British Columbia has tabled legislation to enact a 20 per cent flipping tax on those who sell their home within the first year of ownership. Finance Minister Katrine Conroy told the legisla...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden has faced protests over the conflict in Gaza all over the country, but this week he confronted one inside the White House itself. The occasion was a private meeti...

A Nebraska lawmaker who invoked the name of a colleague while reading a graphic account of rape on the floor of the Legislature violated the body's workforce sexual harassment policy, an outside inves...