Tag Archives: Politics

WINNIPEG - Manitoba's Opposition Progressive Conservatives are calling for mandatory public consultations and buffer zones around the NDP government's proposed detention centres for people intoxicated...

QUBEC - Medical specialists in Quebec are planning a legal challenge to a recent law that imposes a new method of remuneration on physicians, which they say violates individual freedoms. The bill, whi...

OTTAWA - A senior official working at the Canada Revenue Agency says the agency is looking to artificial intelligence and better training to help call centre agents provide more accurate answers to ta...

VICTORIA - British Columbia's auditor general says the province's multi-billion-dollar settlement with tobacco companies should have been recorded in last year's books, instead of being spread out ove...

RICHMOND - Residents of Richmond, B.C., asked why they weren't told sooner about potential risks to their property rights at a tense meeting with officials over the impact of the landmark Cowichan Tri...

REGINA - Regina's police chief has been fired following a misconduct investigation involving inappropriate text messages, the city's mayor announced Tuesday. Chad Bachynski told reporters the probe fo...

The Alberta government on Monday invoked the notwithstanding clause in legislation ordering 51,000 striking teachers back to work. Premier Danielle Smith said it was needed because of the size of the ...

TORONTO - Ontario Premier Doug Ford calls a fixed election date rule his government is proposing to get rid of "a fake law." Attorney General Doug Downey announced Monday that the government intends t...

OTTAWA - Environment advocates say the federal government's consultations ahead of the release of its climate competitiveness strategy next week have focused in part on making industrial carbon pricin...

WASHINGTON - Victor Owen Schwartz started a business importing wine and spirits to the United States with his mother nearly 40 years ago. His company VOS Selections, which he runs with his daughter, s...