Tag Archives: Politics

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick's budget surplus has risen by more than $200 million after the government collected more money than anticipated in income and sales tax and federal transfers. Finance Minis...

CHARLOTTETOWN - Canada's smallest province is looking to boost its tourism profile by capitalizing on the popularity of the National Hockey League. Under a marketing agreement announced earlier this w...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - Another attempt to enshrine abortion rights in the New Hampshire Constitution failed Thursday, this time in the Senate. State law prohibits abortion after 24 weeks of pregnancy ex...

CALGARY - Thirty-six law professors, legal researchers and other staff from Alberta's two largest universities are asking the province to reconsider policy changes affecting transgender youth. The ope...

VANCOUVER - A new report ahead of next week's B.C. budget is forecasting slower economic growth for the province this year. The Business Council of British Columbia says "lacklustre" growth globally, ...

OTTAWA - A corporation co-owned by 13 Mi'kmaw communities is investing in new battery plants with Nova Scotia Power in what both parties are calling a step toward reconciliation. The project, announce...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Multimillionaire Republican businessman Eric Hovde is planning to launch a bid for U.S. Senate against Democratic incumbent Sen. Tammy Baldwin next week. Hovde campaign spokespers...

OTTAWA - Government departments lacked adequate protections to fend off a "sophisticated and co-ordinated" cyberattack that compromised the sensitive information of tens of thousands of Canadians, the...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A Republican proposal to legalize medical marijuana in Wisconsin is dead. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said Thursday that there will still be a public hearing to build support for p...

ROXBORO, N.C. (AP) - One candidate is an Ivy League-educated attorney who over 25 years amassed allies as he climbed North Carolina's Democratic ladder. The other is a former furniture factory worker ...