Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - Canada's integrity watchdog has issued an urgent funding request to the federal government warning the "whistle-blowing regime" is at risk. Public Sector Integrity Commissioner of Canada Harr...

DAVOS - Prime Minister Mark Carney has arrived back in Ottawa after a nine-day trip around the world - a tour aimed at drumming up investment abroad that has attracted some cross-partisan criticism. C...

VICTORIA - Premier David Eby says a recent agreement advancing wood construction in China will deliver results for the forestry industry in British Columbia, but also acknowledges that it will take "t...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Lindsey Halligan, who, as a hastily appointed Justice Department prosecutor, pursued indictments against a pair of President Donald Trump's adversaries, is leaving her position as he...

WINNIPEG - The head of Manitoba Hydro says the Crown-owned utility is facing dry conditions and low water levels as it aims to expand generating capacity and replace aging infrastructure. Hydro presid...

QUBEC - Quebec Premier Franois Legault has called a byelection for the riding of Chicoutimi on Feb. 23. The riding in the Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean region has been vacant since September, when former cabin...

TORONTO - The trade deal between Canada and China has experts saying it could lead to Chinese electric vehicle firms producing vehicles in Canada, but much depends on the trade talks ahead with the Un...

EDMONTON - The first of more than two dozen recall petitions launched against members of Alberta's legislature has come up short. Jenny Yeremiy submitted to Elections Alberta Tuesday her petition agai...

CALGARY - Alberta Opposition NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi says Premier Danielle Smith's United Conservative Party government is playing politics with the failure of a key water main in Calgary by pointing...

British Columbia's Energy Minister Adrian Dix says an agreement between BC Hydro and the Nisga'a First Nation will help power a planned floating LNG terminal in northwestern B.C. across the finish lin...