Tag Archives: Politics

VICTORIA - British Columbia's lowest paid workers get a pay increase Monday with a scheduled minimum wage hike at a crucial time for small businesses as they look for ways to continue o...

CAMPBELLTON, N.B. - People from a city in northern New Brunswick lined up outside testing centres Saturday, anxiously waiting to find out if they've been exposed to COVID-19. Health official...

OTTAWA - The United Nations has confirmed that the election for non-permanent seats on the Security Council - which pits Canada against Norway and Ireland - will take place in June unde...

REGINA - For Dean Funke, getting hired at Regina's Co-op oil refinery felt like winning the lottery. "For a blue-collar worker, you can't get better than the refinery. And it's always been that way," ...

OTTAWA - The head of Canada's federal housing agency wrote a one-word email in November to sum up the time it took to figure out just which newly shuffled cabinet minister was responsible for the...

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 ...

TORONTO - The mayor of a small town in eastern Quebec, just across the river from New Brunswick, says residents are breathing a small sigh of relief. Pascal Bujold says people in Pointe-a-la...

OTTAWA - The Senate is staying closed for two more weeks, not planning to sit again until June 16. The upper chamber is following the lead of the House of Commons, which doesn't have a ...

EDMONTON - Alberta is planning to distribute 20 million non-medical masks for free at hundreds of drive-thru fast-food restaurants. Health Minister Tyler Shandro says it's one more way to keep Al...

MONTREAL - Former Parti Quebecois leader Andre Boisclair turned himself in at an east-end Montreal police station Friday after a warrant was issued for his arrest on sexual assault char...