Tag Archives: Politics

WINNIPEG - Roughly half of the inmates at a jail west of Winnipeg couldn't vote in the last provincial election due to a series of events that included miscommunication among election workers, a repor...

TORONTO - Ontario says it will invest $750 million to boost funding for science, technology, engineering and mathematics programs at colleges and universities across the province. Colleges and Univers...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. and global economies will likely slow significantly in the wake of President Donald Trump's tariffs and the uncertainty they have created, the International Monetary Fund sa...

TORONTO - The University of Toronto is launching a new climate institute with the help of a $60-million gift. The interdisciplinary Lawson Climate Institute is expected to focus on sustainable technol...

WINNIPEG - Trchelle Bunn has had a whirlwind month. She wrapped up her two-year tenure as one of the Southern Chiefs' Organization youth chiefs, finished her second year of law school at the Universit...

BOSTON (AP) - Harvard University announced Monday that it has filed suit to halt a federal freeze on more than $2.2 billion in grants after the institution said it would defy the Trump administration'...

COLWOOD - A British Columbia city on Vancouver Island that's hiring doctors as municipal employees is "very close" to hiring two more physicians, and its mayor believes it will eventually exceed its g...

EDMONTON - A judge has granted Alberta's government its request to question the former head of the provincial health authority about confidential emails she is accused of keeping and sharing without p...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Google is confronting an existential threat as the U.S. government tries to break up the company as punishment for turning its revolutionary search engine into an illegal monopoly. T...

MONTREAL - A Canadian cardinal was a top contender the last time a new pope was elected, but observers say that's unlikely to be the case this time around. Canada's five cardinals all have marks again...