Tag Archives: Politics

ALBANY, N.Y. - The nearly $1 billion Constitution Pipeline project, which had been designed to take natural gas from Pennsylvania's shale gas fields to metropolitan New York and New England, has been ...

OTTAWA - The spirit of reconciliation requires a "peaceful resolution" to the blockades that have kept rail traffic from operating across the country, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday, hours ...

OTTAWA - The United Nations' top disarmament official says governments need to pay more attention to the "dark side" of artificial intelligence, including the implications of so-called killer robots t...

TORONTO - Members of Ontario's legislature began a new tradition Monday of singing "God Save the Queen" in the chamber, which an Indigenous politician called a step backward for reconciliation. The le...

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says it was a new, last-minute delay by Ottawa on whether to approve the Frontier oilsands mine that led Teck Resources Ltd. to pull the plu...

OTTAWA - The federal government faced calls Monday to add more diversity to the senior ranks of the public service, as black civil servants gathered in the national capital to share their experiences ...

VICTORIA - Overdose deaths linked to illicit drugs dropped by 36 per cent last year in British Columbia compared with 2018 but the death toll remains almost as high as when the province declared ...

VANCOUVER - Money laundering has distorted British Columbia's economy, fuelled the opioid crisis and overheated the real estate market, the province argued at the start of an inquiry into the criminal...

VICTORIA - A seventh case of the novel coronavirus has been diagnosed in British Columbia, bringing to 11 the number of cases in Canada. Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said Monda...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government has introduced legislation aimed at making it easier for intolerably ill Canadians to get medical help to end their lives. The bill, tabled Mon...