Tag Archives: Politics

SYDNEY - Federal officials say Sydney, N.S., has the inside track on becoming the base for the Canadian Coast Guard's upcoming polar icebreakers as the country continues the push to assert its soverei...

HALIFAX - For the fourth year in a row, Nova Scotia's auditor general is recommending stronger oversight on how the provincial government spends money not included in the budget. Kim Adair's annual re...

OTTAWA - Justice Sheilah Martin says she will retire from the Supreme Court of Canada effective May 30, one day shy of her 70th birthday. Martin said in a media statement Tuesday she was deeply gratef...

TORONTO - Homelessness is getting worse across Ontario with an estimated 85,000 people who were without a home in 2025 and nearly 2,000 encampments across the province, a new report from Ontario's mun...

The federal privacy watchdog has found Staples Canada did not fully remove personal information from returned laptops that it later resold. The Privacy Commissioner of Canada says its staff recently a...

OTTAWA - As advocates warn the world is turning away from the suffering in Gaza, a Canadian charity is opening a relief hub to give traumatized children in the enclave access to basic mental health su...

PRINCE RUPERT - Coastal First Nations president Marilyn Slett said she called on Prime Minister Mark Carney in a meeting Tuesday to maintain and protect the oil tanker moratorium in his government's p...

WINNIPEG - Members of the Canadian Armed Forces are on the ground providing help to a First Nation in northern Manitoba that is in the throes of severe water issues, while some displaced residents may...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Trump administration's criminal investigation of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell appeared on Monday to be emboldening defenders of the U.S. central bank, who pushed back agai...

EDMONTON - Alberta's Opposition NDP is calling on Premier Danielle Smith's government to face a "crisis" of overcrowded hospitals head-on as doctors plead for emergency measures to help cope. NDP hosp...