Tag Archives: Politics

VICTORIA - Elections BC says British Columbia should extend the campaign period for fixed-date elections and byelections by having "writ day" and the close of nominations occur on Wednesdays instead o...

QUBEC - The Quebec government has passed a law extending the province's ban on religious symbols to everyone who interacts with students in schools. The law also prohibits students from wearing face c...

MONTREAL - The 1995 referendum on independence took place 30 years ago on Thursday, when a razor-thin majority of Quebecers voted to stay in Canada. After a dramatic campaign during which the sovereig...

OTTAWA - Ottawa's new climate competitiveness strategy is being developed "behind closed doors," without input from First Nations, an Assembly of First Nations leader charged at a parliamentary commit...

OTTAWA - The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security warns that hackers with an activist agenda have been tampering with online systems that control water, energy and agricultural facilities. An alert sent...

OTTAWA - The head of Canada's military formally apologized Thursday to the Canadian Armed Forces for the service's history of racist discrimination and vowed to improve the situation for racialized CA...

OTTAWA - The federal government has spent more than $15 million fighting a class-action lawsuit filed by Black public servants, documents filed in Parliament show. A document prepared by the Departmen...

A Richmond, B.C., councillor says a company based in the city has been refused financing for what she says is a $100 million project because of uncertainty over their site due to the Cowichan Tribes A...

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick's government says it's cutting a carbon tax that will reduce prices at the pump by about eight cents a litre, starting Dec. 1. Premier Susan Holt had promised during last y...

EDMONTON - Hundreds of students cut class Thursday to march and chant against Alberta's shutdown of a teachers strike in protests that saw Premier Danielle Smith compared to a cold-hearted, green-furr...