Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - Federal public service unions are condemning the government's proposed amendments to collective bargaining rules - though they admit they know little at this point about what those changes co...

MONTREAL - A former researcher with Quebec's hydro utility who is facing economic espionage charges said Thursday he was applying for work at universities in China as a contingency plan because he was...

OTTAWA - The minority Liberal government has survived the first of three confidence tests on its federal budget. Members of Parliament have voted to defeat a Conservative sub-amendment in the House of...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba politicians passed bills aimed at banning election disinformation, guarding social housing stock and changing income taxes as the legislature session ended Thursday night. One of t...

MONTREAL - Some Canadian travellers bound for America will see cancelled flights and delayed itineraries as the U.S. government shutdown puts pressure on the country's aviation network, prompting regu...

OTTAWA - The federal government is cutting the number of spots available in its refugee humanitarian and permanent residency streams for next year. The updated immigration levels plan released this we...

MONTREAL - The head of WSP Global Inc. says the government shutdown in the United States could hurt the engineering giant's bottom line if it drags on much longer. So far, the halting of government se...

OTTAWA - An elections watchdog fined Nova Scotia Liberal MP Jaime Battiste and his financial agent $600 each for a series of elections law violations - including a donation of funds to Battiste's own ...

TORONTO - Ontario is lowering projections for new home construction levels in its fall economic statement, putting the government further away from building 1.5 million homes in 10 years - a goal the ...

CHICAGO (AP) - A federal judge in Chicago on Thursday issued an extensive injunction restricting federal agents' use of force, saying Thursday that a top Border Patrol official leading an immigration ...