Tag Archives: Politics

TORONTO - Ontario is seeking to appeal a temporary court order stopping it from ripping up three major Toronto bike lanes while a judge weighs whether the plan is unconstitutional. The government serv...

EDMONTON - A former Alberta premier has a new job in the provincial courts. The provincial government says David Hancock has been named assistant chief justice of the Alberta Court of Justice in the E...

TORONTO - Pop musician Sara Quin says social media has "tragically torn the world to shreds" in recent years, and it's time people consider ways to reestablish a more positive sense of community. The ...

OTTAWA - Canada's energy CEOs are calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney to scrap the emissions cap on oil and gas producers and repeal industrial carbon pricing to help bolster the industry. Thirty-ei...

MONTREAL - Asylum claims doubled at a Quebec border crossing in April as the Trump administration seeks to strip legal protections from hundreds of thousands of migrants in the United States. There we...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - The Republican challenger for a North Carolina Supreme Court seat conceded last November's election on Wednesday to Democratic incumbent Allison Riggs, two days after a federal ju...

TORONTO - Premier Doug Ford and Health Minister Sylvia Jones defended on Wednesday the province's approach to the measles outbreak as new infections increase sharply and criticism mounts. The latest p...

OTTAWA - Senior federal officials have been looking quietly for ways to bring together Canadians who don't see eye to eye on the economy, immigration and social issues. With a general election looming...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Cincinnati Mayor Aftab Pureval will face Cory Bowman, the half brother of Vice President JD Vance, this fall after the pair were the top two vote-getters in Tuesday's primary. Pu...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba's new Opposition leader says his party wants changes and clarity on a bill by the NDP government that would add gender expression to the province's human rights code. The bill, now...