Tag Archives: Politics

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The U.S. Justice Department has issued subpoenas to California officials in an escalation of its scrutiny of local election administration. The Associated Press obtained copies of t...

TORONTO - Lawyers representing Elections Ontario told an Ontario Human Rights Tribunal hearing on Thursday that the agency seeks to accommodate all voters with disabilities the best it can, but those ...

CALGARY - Calgary's police chief is asking for a sizable jump in the service's budget over the next four years, pointing out that failing to receive it would put Calgarians at risk and reduce the effe...

MONTREAL - Hydro-Qubec will continue seeking higher electricity rates for data centres and cryptocurrency miners despite a court decision striking down governmental decrees that supported the plan. Hy...

OTTAWA - Defence Minister David McGuinty says the federal government's planned purchase of 88 F-35 stealth fighters remains under review, even after the military received its first two F-35s in recent...

FREDERICTON - Military officials say a fire burning in an area of a central New Brunswick army base near Fredericton is under control and isn't a threat to public safety. The Canadian Armed Forces sai...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola denied Thursday that she knew anything about an effort to put another candidate on the Alaska ballot with the same name as the Republican...

REGINA - First responders in Saskatchewan who worry they've been infected with viruses on the job will be able to get answers in hours, instead of days, under a new bill. The province has proposed leg...

VANCOUVER - A child psychiatrist and pediatrician has described how children are disproportionately vulnerable to the effects of climate change in her testimony at Canada's first youth-led climate tri...

HALIFAX - An association representing university teachers in Nova Scotia is accusing Premier Tim Houston of political intimidation after his office complained to a Toronto professor who had commented ...