Tag Archives: Politics

QUBEC - Coalition Avenir Qubec leader Christine Frchette is rejecting suggestions that an IT project in the health-care system will cost a billion dollars. Radio-Canada published a report earlier this...

OTTAWA - The European Union is a complex assembly of countries that is taking on an increasingly important role for the world and for Canadian interests. Here's a look at what the EU is and how it wor...

CALGARY - Premier Danielle Smith and her government expect next month's separation referendum to be the last word on the subject - but those fighting for an independent Alberta say no matter the outco...

EDMONTON - Elections Alberta said Thursday it has now seen more than 500,000 requests for mail-in ballots for the Oct. 19 referendum. The agency is expecting a record voter turnout, and the number of ...

GATINEAU - The Royal Canadian Air Force welcomed on Thursday the first two of its new trainer aircraft, the CT-157 Siskin II - the same planes that will replace the old Tutor jets flown by the Snowbir...

British Columbia Conservative leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay said Thursday she was "not going anywhere" on another day of tumult for the Opposition, roiled by revelations that a private eye had been hired...

PHOENIX (AP) - Former U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl, a longtime Republican lawmaker from Arizona who shaped landmark water policies in the U.S. West and guided the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kava...

OTTAWA - In a historic address to the European Parliament on Thursday, Prime Minister Mark Carney said he welcomes European Council President Ursula von der Leyen's ambition to see Canada become the f...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba's twice-yearly clock changes are a thing of the past as the province moves to make daylight time permanent. That means Manitobans will not set their clocks back an hour on Nov. 1 a...

OTTAWA - Ottawa's fiscal watchdog says a surge in inflation a few years back drove a substantial jump in the cost of delivering the Canada Child Benefit after the pandemic. The new report from parliam...