Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - The federal government says it has no plans to reopen its embassy in Syria. Gregory Galligan is Canada's ambassador to Lebanon and also covers Syria, and he tells the House foreign affairs co...

OTTAWA - Judges must have the legal right to issue non-binding judgments in cases where governments override sections of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, a lawyer for the attorney general of Canada...

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government's plan to eliminate the provincial sales tax on all food sold in grocery stores was questioned Wednesday by restaurant owners who argue they're being put at a disadv...

TORONTO - Ontario should be prepared for "tougher times" amid global economic disruption, but the government won't slash public sector jobs to buttress the budget amid uncertainty, the finance ministe...

If lower interest rates can't push homebuyers off the sidelines, perhaps a year's worth of free borrowing costs will. That's the hope for one developer whose offer joins a growing list of incentives a...

OTTAWA - The union representing staff at Global Affairs Canada says the foreign service is laying off dozens of its most skilled diplomats, while asking other envoys moving across continents to wait m...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrat Emily Gregory won a special election for a Florida state House seat on Tuesday, flipping a district that is home to President Donald Trump's estate, Mar-a-Lago. The Republic...

OTTAWA - Voters in Terrebonne will use a write-in ballot in the upcoming byelection, as the Longest Ballot Committee has made the Quebec riding its latest target. Elections Canada's advisory committee...

QUBEC - Quebec's minister of health and social services has tabled a bill to relax the criteria for the involuntary hospitalization of patients experiencing a mental health crisis. The bill aims to ov...

TORONTO - Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Tuesday he believes the information and privacy commissioner, who is speaking out about changes he is making to freedom-of-information laws, is "politically dr...