Tag Archives: Politics

HALIFAX - The premier of Nova Scotia says a tragedy led his energy minister to resign over rap lyrics this week. Tim Houston made the comment on Thursday, less than 15 hours after his office announced...

Construction is underway on a major electricity transmission project in northern British Columbia that the federal and provincial governments say will inject billions into the provincial economy, driv...

EDMONTON - Election officials in Alberta said Thursday they've seen a surge of interest in people wanting to vote early by mail for next month's referendum on whether Albertans want to hold a binding ...

REGINA - Saskatchewan says there's strong support for limits on kids accessing social media among those who responded to a recent survey. The government says about 86 per cent of the more than 26,000 ...

TORONTO - An Ontario judge has denied a motion that would have allowed a woman who suffers solely from mental illness to apply for a medically assisted death, while insisting the Attorney General of C...

ST. JOHN'S - Newfoundland and Labrador's auditor general found reports of abuse, medication errors and missing residents in the province's long-term care homes. An audit by Denise Hanrahan's office sa...

THUNDER BAY - Prime Minister Mark Carney pushed back on Thursday against senior members of the Trump administration who have been claiming his government tanked trade talks in the eleventh hour for po...

OTTAWA - Some of Canada's leading environmental groups are pushing the federal government to change aspects of proposed legislation to speed up development of major projects before it's tabled this fa...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday he will have one simple message for Vladimir Putin if the Russian president attends the G20 leaders' summit this December in Florida: "get out of Ukra...

OTTAWA - The Federal Court has ordered the release of some long-concealed passages of a 1986 study prepared for a landmark federal commission of inquiry on war crimes. In a new ruling, Federal Court J...