Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - An advocate for murdered and missing Indigenous women said Monday the release of a man who killed two women in Manitoba is another outrage from a justice system that victimizes Indigenous wom...

ST. JOHN'S - Quebec's energy minister says if Newfoundland and Labrador pushes for changes to a draft energy deal between the two provinces, Quebec will make new requests of its own. But Christine Frc...

TORONTO - Ontario Premier Doug Ford is defending his government's skills-development funding system that allows a minister to hand-pick recipients against the advice of bureaucrats, even after referri...

EDMONTON - Alberta's minister of arts, culture and Status of Women has apologized for using an expletive in a voice message she left for a constituent. Tanya Fir, the United Conservative Party legisla...

REGINA - Saskatchewan's government has signed its first contracts with nurse practitioners to expand primary care. Health Minister Jeremy Cockrill says the 19 new contracts will help patients get medi...

VANCOUVER - A human rights complaint has been settled between the TD Bank and a Muslim-Indigenous man who claimed he was racially profiled while trying to open a bank account at a Surrey, B.C., branch...

OTTAWA - The Swedish royal family is paying a rare, three-day state visit to Canada this week, bringing with them a delegation of top government ministers and representatives from dozens of Swedish co...

WINNIPEG - One of the federal government's proposed nation-building projects - the expansion of the Port of Churchill and the rail line that serves the remote northern community - will require a lot o...

OTTAWA - A Mi'kmaw hereditary chief is pleading for help from the public to return his chiefs jacket he lost in the Montreal airport last week. Adorned with a medal presented to him for the Order of C...

SHERBROOKE - Parti Qubcois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon rallied his party faithful Sunday, less than a year from the next provincial election and with a number of important tests to come before the...