Tag Archives: Politics

EDMONTON - The Alberta government is changing its coal policies in a move it says is intended to make it easier to develop open-pit mines in one of the province's most sensitive areas. "Government is ...

WASHINGTON - Norma McCorvey loved the limelight. Better known as "Jane Roe," her story was at the centre of the 1973 Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade that legalized abortion nationwide. At first she was...

OTTAWA - The federal government is ready to help provinces massively scale up their COVID-19 testing capacity to fend off a potential second wave of the novel coronavirus, Prime Minister Justin T...

TORONTO - A justice who accepted a temporary deanship of an Indigenous-focused law school did nothing wrong but was instead the victim of unfair treatment at the hands of the body that oversees j...

CALGARY - Recent environmental monitoring exemptions for the oilsands have been broadened to include Alberta's entire energy industry. The Alberta Energy Regulator says the de...

OTTAWA - Organizations that help Indigenous people living in urban areas and away from reserves - and have been struggling to meet a surge in demand for their services during&...

WASHINGTON - Travel between Canada and the United States is still restricted but businesses, diplomats and communities that depend on cross-border traffic are urging the two countr...

OTTAWA - Most major Canadian cities saw drastic improvements in air quality over the last two months as COVID-19 kept people at home instead of on the roads. Experts say cleaner air, even just fo...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said Thursday that Russian violations make it untenable for the U.S. to stay in a treaty that permits 30-plus nations to conduct observation flights over each other...

Provinces have been releasing plans for easing restrictions that were put in place to limit the spread of COVID-19. Here is what some of the provinces have announced so far: Newfoundland and Labrador ...