Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is demanding that Prime Minister Mark Carney cut taxes and keep the federal deficit under $42 billion in the coming budget. It seems clear the latter will...

VICTORIA - Legislator Amelia Boultbee has quit the British Columbia Conservative caucus and is calling on leader John Rustad to resign, saying he told her to "get the F out." Boultbee is the fifth MLA...

OTTAWA - The federal government still has not issued specific criteria to define the "national interest" under its new major projects law, despite calls from MPs to do so. The Building Canada Act allo...

HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia government has awarded a $2.18-million contract without any competition for a consulting firm to help it deliver better homecare services. Barbara Adams, minister of seniors ...

MONTREAL - The lawyer for a former Bloc Qubcois MP who lost her riding by a single vote in the April federal election says allowing the result to stand would send a "disastrous message" to voters. A t...

An Indigenous advocate in northern Ontario says his community's past experience with Anglo American PLC's diamond-mining subsidiary De Beers does not inspire confidence that a proposed merger between ...

OTTAWA - The federal Liberals say they plan to direct banks to have new policies and procedures in place to detect and prevent fraud. The proposed legislative amendments would require that banks obtai...

EDMONTON - A labour relations professor is criticizing the Alberta government's threat to legislate striking teachers back to work as about 750,000 students entered a third week of cancelled classes M...

TORONTO - Ontario's Ministry of Health has tasked hospitals struggling with deficits to come up with a three-year plan to balance their budgets, and service cuts and bed closures do not appear to be o...

TORONTO - Ontario Labour Minister David Piccini was in the hot seat Monday, facing a slew of questions and accusations about a $2.5-billion fund as politicians returned to Queen's Park for the first t...