Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - The federal carbon price will increase April 1 to $85 per tonne, up from $60. The quarterly rebates associated with it - which the Liberals rebranded Wednesday as the "Canada Carbon Rebate" -...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House on Wednesday announced that Palestinians living in the U.S. will be shielded from deportation as the Israel-Hamas war continues, citing "significantly deteriorated" c...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden avoided criminal charges around his handling of classified documents in part because of his answers during a lengthy interview with the special counsel investigat...

MONTREAL - The last psychiatrist to speak to a mentally ill Quebec man before he fatally stabbed a provincial police sergeant last March had a particularly difficult phone call with him days before th...

ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - A critical pump station that came dangerously close to being overwhelmed by floodwaters in British Columbia in November 2021 will receive almost $80 million in upgrades to provide f...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - The South Carolina Senate again on Wednesday passed a bill allowing people to use marijuana and related products for medical needs. Just like in 2022, Republican Tom Davis' bill ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - West Virginia's Republican-supermajority House of Delegates overwhelmingly passed legislation Wednesday to narrow the definitions of gender that Democrats label as a dystopian...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - A conservative group has told a Georgia judge that it doesn't have evidence to support its claims of illegal ballot stuffing during the the 2020 general election and a runoff two ...

VICTORIA - Veteran British Columbia politician Mike de Jong has announced he will leave the legislature after a 30-year career in government and opposition. De Jong, who was first elected as a B.C. Li...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - A divided Missouri Supreme Court upheld voting districts drawn for the state Senate on Wednesday, rejecting a legal challenge that claimed mapmakers should have placed a gre...