Tag Archives: Politics

WINNIPEG - Former Manitoba premier Brian Pallister, who won two consecutive majority governments and led the province during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, was lauded by friends and colleagues T...

HALIFAX - Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced $3 billion in new infrastructure and defence spending for Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. The prime minister made the announcement Thursday during a n...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. Treasury Department plans to put President Donald Trump's signature on all new U.S. paper currency, the agency announced on Thursday. The move would be a first for a sitting...

OTTAWA - Canada spent $63.4 billion on national defence in 2025, meeting its NATO commitment to spend two per cent of GDP on defence for the first time, the alliance's annual report said Thursday. Spe...

EDMONTON - Alberta's government says it's soon instituting universal provincewide rules to regulate behaviour among local municipal councils. The move comes after Premier Danielle Smith's United Conse...

EDMONTON - Conflicting recommendations on redrawing Alberta's electoral boundaries ahead of the 2027 election are leading the Opposition NDP to warn that Premier Danielle Smith's United Conservatives ...

OTTAWA - MP Michael Ma, who left the Conservatives to join the Liberals, has apologized after appearing to cast doubt on reports of human rights abuses in China. Ma said he regretted making a mistake ...

TORONTO - Ontario is investing $1.1 billion more in home health care as it grapples with the reality that it is unlikely to achieve its goal of building 58,000 new long-term care beds by 2028. The fun...

TORONTO - The Ontario government tabled a budget Thursday that focused on developing a resilient economy amid geopolitical uncertainty. The province is expecting to end this fiscal year with a $12.3-b...

OTTAWA - The head of the world's major funding mechanism for tackling infectious diseases says the Carney government's focus on leveraging private capital for aid will have only a limited impact on th...