Tag Archives: Politics

WINNIPEG - Manitoba minimum-wage earners will make an extra 50 cents an hour as of Oct. 1, Premier Wab Kinew said Wednesday. The increase, which will bring the hourly rate to $15.80, follows a formula...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A former North Carolina representative who finished second in last week's primary for essentially his old U.S. House seat announced on Wednesday that he won't ask for a runoff and...

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick will need to rethink its long-term care offerings to respond to the needs of an increasingly diverse population, the province's seniors' advocate says in a report released ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A pair of Ukrainian justice ministers in Washington this week urged U.S. lawmakers to put aside domestic political disputes and find a way to continue supporting Ukraine in its defen...

MONTREAL - Automobile dealers and manufacturers say Quebec's decision to end a rebate for electric vehicle purchases will stop people in the province from buying cleaner cars. Ian Sam Yue Chi, the pre...

MONTREAL - Officers who were involved in the operation last March that resulted in the deaths of a Quebec provincial police sergeant and her killer offered emotional testimony Wednesday about how the ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky Senate Republicans revealed their version of the state's next two-year budget Wednesday, proposing more funding for the main K-12 school funding formula and doubling the...

OTTAWA - An announcement this week that Canada would provide funding for Palestinian women who have survived sexual violence drew an immediate rebuke from a senior Israeli official. Foreign Affairs Mi...

HALIFAX - An environmental non-profit organization that helps recycle tonnes of used fishing gear at more than two dozen collection sites across Atlantic Canada warns it's at risk of shutting down wit...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - The shakeup of Walt Disney World's governing district more than a year after it was taken over by Gov. Ron DeSantis' appointees continued Wednesday with the departure of its board...