Tag Archives: Politics

CROWSNEST PASS, Alta. - The company behind the proposed Grassy Mountain coal project in southwestern Alberta says it is shocked by the federal government's decision that it cannot proceed. Environment...

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) - At least 25 Algerian soldiers were killed saving residents from wildfires ravaging mountain forests and villages east of the capital, the president announced Tuesday night as t...

Athabasca MLA Buckley Belanger has set his sights on federal politics and will be resigning from his current provincial seat on Sunday. He made the announcement Tuesday during an online media conferen...

NEW YORK (AP) - Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced his resignation Tuesday over a barrage of sexual harassment allegations in a fall from grace a year after he was widely hailed nationally for his detailed d...

OTTAWA - The federal government has spent less than half of the funding earmarked for a pair of flagship housing programs as the need for affordable homes grows along with a yawning "affordability gap...

OTTAWA - The federal government is committing $321 million in new funding for Indigenous communities and appointing a special interlocutor to propose law and policy changes to better respond to the fi...

OTTAWA - Federal Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole accused Beijing of using the death penalty for political purposes on Tuesday after a Chinese court upheld the sentence of a Canadian sentenced to deat...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers vetoed a series of bills Tuesday passed by the state's Republican-controlled Legislature that would have imposed new restrictions on absentee ballots in ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Ethiopia's government on Tuesday summoned all capable citizens to war, urging them to join the country's military to stop resurgent forces from the embattled Tigray region "once ...

BEIJING (AP) - A Canadian entrepreneur who was charged with spying after his government arrested an executive of Chinese tech giant Huawei faces a possible verdict Wednesday as Beijing steps up pressu...