Tag Archives: Politics

EDMONTON - Alberta's auditor general estimates the government's failed effort to privatize community lab testing services left taxpayers on the hook for about $109 million. Auditor general Doug Wylie,...

MONTREAL - Hydro-Qubec's chief executive says she is confident a draft energy deal with Newfoundland and Labrador will be finalized, despite political moves in the eastern province that leave the agre...

REGINA - Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says he's hopeful the federal government and Alberta can make progress on getting a pipeline built and allowing some tanker traffic on the northern B.C. coast. ...

WINNIPEG - Winnipeg police have charged a man in a months-long series of break-ins and deliberately set fires that had business owners, politicians and others on edge. Jesse Robert Shawn Wheatland, 35...

TORONTO - Ontario Education Minister Paul Calandra is signalling that he will act quickly to use new powers granted to him to take control of school boards, eyeing one board in particular identified b...

OTTAWA - Senators have passed sweeping amendments to a bill that would simplify the transfer of First Nations status between generations, rejecting the federal government's advice to limit its scope. ...

A group associated with the American Christian singer Sean Feucht is suing Quebec City's municipal administration after it cancelled one of his planned shows this past July. Burn 24/7 Canada, a Christ...

British Columbia's jobs minister says ending a tanker ban on the province's northern coast to service a pipeline from Alberta to B.C. would put billions of dollars' worth of other projects at risk by ...

TORONTO - The leader of Ontario's official Opposition was kicked out of question period Wednesday morning after calling Premier Doug Ford's government "corrupt," a sentiment Marit Stiles later doubled...

MONTREAL - Pablo Rodriguez is facing his biggest crisis since becoming leader of the Quebec Liberals in June, after a news report on Wednesday alleged some party members were paid to vote for him in t...