Tag Archives: Politics

WASHINGTON (AP) - Congress has approved a short-term extension of a critical surveillance program used by U.S. spy agencies, staving off a Friday expiration as disputes over a longer reauthorization r...

VICTORIA - The B.C. government says construction contracts for five health-care projects have been cancelled, after depicting them as being "re-paced" in the February budget. Infrastructure Minister B...

OTTAWA - Opposition MPs say the Liberals used their new power as a majority government Thursday to shelve debate on calls for the government to provide documents about a $6.6 billion IT project that h...

OTTAWA - Canada's new parliamentary budget officer criticized the government's spring economic update on Thursday for lacking details on spending targets and results. Appearing before the House of Com...

REGINA - Saskatchewan's government has introduced a bill that would change how time is governed in communities that straddle the Alberta boundary. Changes to the Time Act, tabled Thursday, would ensur...

OTTAWA - The Archbishop of Toronto is appealing to Prime Minister Mark Carney's Catholic faith and urging him to "choose life and not death" when it comes to the planned extension of assisted dying el...

OTTAWA - Immigration Minister Lena Diab says she's accountable after a former Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps official was granted a visa to visit Canada. But she says she didn't know about the deci...

REGINA - Saskatchewan's government says residents are to get status updates sooner about whether hospital emergency rooms are closed. Health Minister Jeremy Cockrill told reporters Thursday that start...

WASHINGTON - United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told Canadians looking for insights into the future of bilateral trade this week that "America First" is policy, not a slogan, and they s...

EDMONTON - A database belonging to an Alberta separatist group was shut down Thursday as elections officials and Mounties probe an alleged voter-list privacy breach affecting up to three million Alber...