Tag Archives: Politics

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba legislature wrapped on Monday its spring sitting, which had the government pass a tax cut on some food items and saw accusations of racist comments and other unruly behaviour. ...

CALGARY - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is planning to meet with her counterpart in Quebec City this week, with separatism and energy possible topics of discussion. Speaking at an unrelated news conf...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump is reconsidering whether to move forward with a $1.8 billion fund meant to compensate his allies, a person familiar with his thinking said Monday, as the Justi...

OTTAWA - Federal Agriculture Minister Heath MacDonald says Benoit Basillais has been reappointed as CEO of the Canadian Dairy Commission. Basillais will serve an additional three-year term effective J...

WASHINGTON - Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc is set to travel to Washington on Tuesday to meet with his American counterpart as official negotiations between Ottawa and the Trump administra...

HALIFAX - Five public libraries in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley will be permanently closed later this month because of a lack of funding. The 11-branch Annapolis Valley Regional Library system says ...

Alberta is rolling out a new surgery funding model that ties money to patients, starting in a dozen public hospitals across the province. The government calls it patient-focused funding and says it be...

VICTORIA - Two former B.C. Conservative legislators now sitting as Independents say new leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay will polarize the province. Amelia Boultbee said Findlay's victory on Saturday showed...

REGINA - A wildfire evacuation order has been lifted in northern Saskatchewan but about 1,200 people elsewhere in the province remain out of their homes. Bryan Chartrand with the Saskatchewan Public S...

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre laid the blame for a string of bad economic results directly at the feet of Prime Minister Mark Carney on Monday, a strategy the Liberals chalked up to "p...