Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - Three unions are calling on the government to provide additional compensation to federal public servants as they struggle with the Phoenix pay system and its litany of chronic problems. "This...

Ottawa is freezing the threshold at which the Competition Bureau must be notified of a merger. The federal Liberal government is also providing $123 million to eight homebuilders it says are driving i...

WASHINGTON (AP) - As he prepared to take office three years ago, Joe Biden's incoming administration considered a host of possible options to fulfill a campaign pledge to end the federal death penalty...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's auditor general is asking the Mounties to investigate the provincial Liberal party over its "apparent concealment" of the misuse of public funds by a former employee. Kim Adair...

OTTAWA - The union representing front-line Mounties is urging the RCMP to move beyond "patchwork solutions" to ensure the mental health of officers amid concerns they face increasing risks to their we...

TORONTO - Ontario has euthanized 84 raccoons and laid dozens of charges in its investigation of a wildlife rehabilitation centre it accuses of allowing animals to suffer with no real hope of recovery,...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Congressional leaders emerged from an "intense" Oval Office meeting with President Joe Biden on Tuesday speaking optimistically about the prospects for avoiding a partial government ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Supervisors in San Francisco formally apologized Tuesday to African Americans and their descendants for the city's role in perpetuating racism and discrimination, with several sta...

DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) - President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump won the Michigan primaries on Tuesday, further solidifying the all-but-certain rematch between the two men - yet early resu...

Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim won a do-over election Tuesday in Connecticut's most populous city, months after a judge threw out the results of the first one because of allegations of absentee ballot box...