Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - A House of Commons committee is calling on the government to make it harder for protest groups to sign up dozens of candidates in a single riding, after Elections Canada announced Wednesday t...

Councillors in an Alberta town have become the latest community in the province to ban decorative flags and crosswalks from public land, a move that effectively forbids symbolic artistic statements, s...

TORONTO - Ontario Premier Doug Ford and his health minister said Wednesday they will not reverse course on their decision to shutter more supervised drug consumption sites, after a letter from six for...

EDMONTON - An Alberta legislature committee has reached into the auditor general's office to pick a new person to lead the watchdog agency. The committee voted Wednesday to recommend that Premier Dani...

VICTORIA - The MP representing Tumbler Ridge, B.C., has described how a 12-year-old girl heroically tried to save two classmates shot in the mass killing in the community last month. Bob Zimmer told T...

HALIFAX - Canada's privacy commissioner says Nova Scotia's largest power utility will strengthen its security following a cyberattack last year. Nova Scotia Power sent a compliance letter to commissio...

OTTAWA - Nearly half of those who voted for the federal NDP at least once over the past four elections don't recognize the names of the five current leadership candidates, a new poll suggests. The Ang...

OTTAWA - Gun control advocacy group PolySeSouvient blames "weak political leadership" for what it calls "poor participation" in a federal compensation program for banned firearms. Public Safety Minist...

HALIFAX - Residential power rates in Nova Scotia are going up, but not quite as much as the biggest utility in the province was hoping. The provincial regulator has issued a lengthy decision on Nova S...

QUBEC - The Quebec Conservatives now have an elected member in the national assembly after a former cabinet minister with the Coalition Avenir Qubec crossed the floor to join the party. Mat Blanchette...