Tag Archives: Politics

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Maryland signed a contract this week to create a text-message alert system for the grounds of the Capitol, lawmakers said Friday, a day after the historic building was put on loc...

HALIFAX - The last of 26 charges laid after a 2021 Halifax housing protest has ended with an acquittal, capping a two-and-a-half-year legal saga during which just a handful of prosecutions proceeded. ...

Halifax officials delivered on a promise Friday to cut electricity to the dozen or so people living in a homeless encampment set up last fall outside city hall. As of 9 a.m., all but one of the 12 rem...

A judge in Montana rejected abortion restrictions, the attorney general in Missouri is accusing Planned Parenthood of illegally transporting minors for abortions and new data shows how the way abortio...

FREDERICTON - A former minister in New Brunswick's Progressive Conservative government announced Friday he won't be running in the coming provincial election. Daniel Allain, 53, said in a statement on...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley said Friday that she raised $12 million in February, a haul that will likely allow her to remain in the Republican primary against forme...

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada says police need judicial authorization to obtain a computer's internet protocol address, calling the identification number a crucial link between a person and the...

Mayors of small cities from Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Alberta and British Columbia are calling on Statistics Canada to halt the release of its annual Crime Severity Index until consultations are held wi...

CHICAGO (AP) - The recent ruling in Alabama that frozen embryos are legally considered children created a political firestorm after the decision halted treatment for many couples seeking to have famil...

HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia legislature has paid tribute to the late Brian Mulroney, lauding the former prime minister's ties to the province. Premier Tim Houston and the two opposition party leaders ro...