Tag Archives: Politics

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Federal Reserve kept its key rate unchanged Wednesday yet almost half the central bank's policymakers said they could support a rate hike later this year. The unexpectedly aggres...

WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he would rather not have the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement in place and offered a confusing message on the trade pact's future. "We do bette...

TABER - The controversy over a town billboard urging Alberta leave Canada has now mushroomed into three signs. The man behind the campaign says town officials who demanded he remove the first sign app...

OTTAWA - A senior federal bureaucrat has been named the interim commissioner of Indigenous languages. Candice St-Aubin, a senior assistant deputy minister of strategic policy with Indigenous Services ...

QUBEC - Warning about the public's growing skepticism toward institutions, Quebec's bar association says it will hold a summit on the rule of law ahead of October's provincial election. The summit, de...

CULTUS LAKE - The agency that oversees safety at B.C. amusement parks says investigators have found "electrical non compliances" at Cultus Lake Waterpark where a group of 12 schoolchildren suffered el...

OTTAWA - Canada's spy service obtained a judge's permission to disrupt cyberthreats from foreign adversaries who infected digital devices with malware. A Federal Court ruling made public this week say...

OTTAWA - Two lawyers say the blurring of language on the right of First Nations to clean drinking water in a new bill serves as a shield for the federal government as it argues against that right in c...

HALIFAX - A judge has handed a Nova Scotia man a conditional discharge after he was convicted of hacking into a provincial government employee's social media account and posting an antisemitic message...

OTTAWA - Conservative MP Cathay Wagantall says she plans to resign her seat in the House of Commons at the end of the summer. Wagantall, who has represented the riding of Yorkton-Melville since 2015, ...