Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - The Canada Revenue Agency is sending an unlikely message to kick off tax season: Paper-filers, we have not forgotten you. Despite a years-long push to have more people file taxes online ...

CODOGNO, Italy - Police manned checkpoints around quarantined towns in Italy's north on Monday and residents stocked up on food as the country became the focal point of the outbreak in Europe and fear...

OTTAWA - Canada's poverty rate has fallen to a historic low in one of the sharpest three-year declines on record, the national statistics office says, but millions of Canadians still live below t...

EDMONTON - The Alberta Court of Appeal gave opponents of the federal carbon tax their first win on Monday when it ruled that the levy is unconstitutional. In a 4-1 decision, the Appeal ...

VANCOUVER - Teck Resources Ltd. has withdrawn its application for a massive oilsands mining project just days ahead of an expected government decision, citing the political discourse over climate chan...

MONTREAL - Quebec's education minister has formally apologized to a renowned McGill University ethics professor for removing him from consultations based on false information. Jean-Francois Roberge de...

TORONTO - A woman who arrived in Toronto from China last week has a presumptive case of the novel coronavirus, health officials said Sunday, days after announcing the last of three people previously d...

EDMONTON - The Alberta government has struck deals with two northern Alberta First Nations over a proposed open-pit oilsands mine that's awaiting Ottawa's approval. The Mikisew Cree and Athabasca Chip...

OTTAWA - The ghosts of Indigenous protests past have hovered over Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as his government struggles to bring a peaceful end to blockades that have disrupted traffic o...

TYENDINAGA MOHAWK TERRITORY, Ont. - Protesters were reportedly given until the end of Sunday night to clear a blockade on Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory that's crippled the country's rail network. O...