Tag Archives: Politics

VANCOUVER - A judge ended the last day of a nearly four-year trial by hinting that no matter which side wins in the fight over the expansion of private health care in British Columbia, the case w...

OTTAWA - A human-rights lawsuit against a Canadian mining company can be heard in British Columbia, even though it involves events in Africa, the Supreme Court of Canada ...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Thursday cited low unemployment rates for African Americans and passage of a criminal justice bill providing earlier release for thousands of federal drug offend...

OTTAWA - The Conservative leadership race is underway and the deadline to register as a candidate was Thursday. To register, a candidate had to submit 1,000 signatures, $25,000, and a full a...

EDMONTON - Alberta's United Conservative government tabled its 2020-21 budget Thursday. Here is a look at who might be pleased and who won't be so happy: WINNERS Techies: The province is investing $20...

EDMONTON - Highlights: Alberta's United Conservative government tabled its budget 2020-21 Thursday. Here are some of the highlights: - A $6.8 billion deficit on revenues of $50 billion. - The bud...

OTTAWA - Canada's top public-health official Dr. Theresa Tam says Canada has begun to look at tracking local spread of the novel coronavirus, just as the United States confirmed a case ...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will sit down with provincial and territorial leaders on March 13 to wrestle with some of the thorny issues that are dividing the nation. The first ministers' me...

VANCOUVER - Government lawyers have made irrelevant arguments in British Columbia Supreme Court by saying the province would lose millions of dollars a year in federal funding if a lawsuit seeking an ...

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne says he will make a renewed push for compensation for families of people who died in the Ukraine International Airlines crash on a th...