Tag Archives: Politics

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick's chief electoral officer offered an inside look Thursday at the province's elections office as it scrambled to get ready for a snap election that Premier Blaine Higgs hint...

WASHINGTON (AP) - From allegations of plotting to overturn a lost election to illegally stowing classified documents at his Florida estate, former President Donald Trump faces four criminal indictment...

OTTAWA - A federal watchdog is urging the RCMP to do a better job of assessing the privacy implications of commercial surveillance and monitoring services before using them. In a report released Thurs...

POINTE-CLAIRE, Que. - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is pledging that a future government would cut what he calls "wasteful foreign aid" and would not allow funding to go to "dictators, terroris...

OTTAWA - A Conservative MP whose Toronto office was vandalized this week is among several federal politicians now under visible police protection on Parliament Hill. Melissa Lantsman's Thornhill offic...

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, ...