Tag Archives: Politics

VICTORIA - The British Columbia deficit forecast has grown by $450 million to a record-setting $13.8 billion, largely because of a "calculation error" on natural gas royalties, in a situation one crit...

EDMONTON - The Alberta government says its provincewide influenza, COVID and respiratory syncytial virus vaccination campaign will begin next month. The province says it's maintaining the $100 fee it ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky returned to the Senate on Monday for the first time since June 14, when he was hospitalized after a fall in his home. McConnell's three-mo...

OTTAWA - Hundreds of executives and global asset managers are in Toronto this week for Canada's first-ever national investment summit. Prime Minister Mark Carney has set an ambitious goal of attractin...

MONTREAL - A Montreal man has received a conditional sentence of two years less a day for a scheme involving forgery and fraud on dozens of tax returns. The Canada Revenue Agency says Flix Vil pleaded...

OTTAWA - The European Union is planning on more parliamentary exchanges between Canada and the 720 politicians representing its member states. Roberta Metsola, president of the European Parliament, sa...

OTTAWA - European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Wednesday she wants Canada to become the first "associate member" of the European Union, inspiring both curiosity and confusion on two ...

OTTAWA - Canadian border authorities say they have deported 111 people since August last year in efforts to combat extortion violence in South Asian communities. The Canada Border Services Agency says...

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government is offering to waive the provincial sales tax on major capital spending for the Port of Churchill as it tries to attract international investment. Premier Wab Kinew ...

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says the response rate for this year's census of the population was 98.4 per cent, one of the highest ever recorded. The data is collected every five years and the questionn...