Tag Archives: Politics

MONTREAL - In a recent debate on Radio-Canada, Soraya Martinez Ferrada, one of the leading candidates for mayor of Montreal, brought up comments made more than two years ago by a borough mayor compari...

EDMONTON - Premier Danielle Smith's caucus worked into the wee hours of Tuesday morning to curtail debate and speedily pass a bill using the Charter's notwithstanding clause to order 51,000 striking t...

BURNABY - The B.C. General Employees' Union says it will recommend that its members vote to accept a tentative deal reached with the provincial government to bring an end to strike action, while a uni...

MONTREAL - Advance polls are open across 1,100 Quebec municipalities, just one week shy of the provincewide Nov. 2 vote. Polls will be open today between noon and 8 p.m., but many citizens have not re...

OTTAWA - The NDP leadership contenders are working on their French language skills as they prepare to meet for their first debate on Nov. 27 in Montreal, expected to be held primarily in French. The o...

MONTREAL - Louise Harel cried only once during the 1995 Quebec referendum. It was in the middle of the campaign, when she saw internal polling that showed the sovereigntists in the lead. Then a Parti ...

CALGARY - Few are as acquainted with Canada's graveyard of defunct oil pipelines as Alex Pourbaix, a former executive at the company behind the Keystone XL and Energy East proposals. "You can see the ...

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick's Tories need to be united and have a clear Conservative identity, says former premier Blaine Higgs. The Progressive Conservative who served as New Brunswick's premier from...

HALIFAX - A group of landowners in eastern Nova Scotia is speaking out for the first time about their opposition to an ambitious plan to build North America's first coastal refuge for whales retired f...

KUALA LUMPUR - Prime Minister Mark Carney took a veiled shot at the Trump administration's trade policy on Sunday, highlighting Canada's reliability and steadiness without naming the United States or ...