Tag Archives: Politics

DRUMMONDVILLE - Coalition Avenir Qubec members have named Christine Frchette as the new party leader and Quebec's 33rd premier. She will be sworn in before the Quebec legislature resumes on May 5. Frc...

OTTAWA - Mohammed Al Hindi is a Palestinian refugee claimant whose application is now at risk because of Ottawa's new border law, C-12. Before fleeing the Gaza Strip with his family to escape the Isra...

GJOA HAVEN - Canada's emergency management minister says she has approved a request from the Nunavut government to urgently deploy the Canadian Rangers to the Hamlet of Gjoa Haven to help distribute d...

VICTORIA - Peter Milobar will be without his longtime campaign manager during the final stretch of the race to become the new leader of the Conservative Party of B.C. amid controversy stemming from a ...

FREDERICTON - Hundreds of candidates in New Brunswick have formally kicked off campaigns for local governments, education boards and rural advisory committees. Many of the Atlantic province's largest ...

MONTREAL - Prime Minister Mark Carney issued a call on Saturday for political unity and for Canadians to dispatch with "politics as usual" as the country confronts a crumbling international order it o...

EDMONTON, ALBERTA, CANADA - An Alberta judge has put up a roadblock on a petition drive looking to force a vote on the province quitting Canada. Justice Shaina Leonard, in a written decision issued Fr...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew is planning to go to Ottawa next week for a meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney. Kinew says it's part of a plan the two men have to meet roughly every three m...

EDMONTON - Critics of Alberta's proposed rule changes to public libraries say the true danger lies in giving the province power to dictate access and potentially snoop on which books people are checki...

Anti-drone lasers used near the southern border by the U.S. military and Homeland Security to combat cartel drones are safe and shouldn't necessitate airport closures, the Federal Aviation Administrat...