Tag Archives: Politics

VANCOUVER - A motion on the recommendation that Vancouver city council create a new corporation tasked with developing an estimated 4,000 units of rental housing on six city properties has failed to s...

British Columbia's Opposition Leader says he "didn't talk about mental health" as he discussed the defection of one of his caucus members this week. John Rustad says it was a reporter who asked about ...

EDMONTON - The union representing Alberta teachers in a provincewide strike say they're talking to lawyers to determine next steps as legislation looms ordering them back to work. The Alberta Teachers...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston shuffled his cabinet on Tuesday in a ceremony closed to the media, dropping three members who oversaw the departments of justice, energy and natural resources...

EDMONTON - Alberta's government is providing more details about a bill it says will prevent long ballot protests during provincial elections. The legislation, to be introduced soon by Justice Minister...

MONTREAL - The lawyer for a Quebec Liberal MP who won her riding in the April federal election by a single vote argued on Tuesday it would be unfair to other voters to cancel the result over one uncou...

OTTAWA - The Assembly of First Nations says it's talking to the Vatican Museum about repatriating a number of sacred items currently in its collection. National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak said Tues...

VANCOUVER - First Nations leaders in British Columbia say provincial Conservative leader John Rustad is using "dangerous and cynical rhetoric" in his response to a landmark court decision that recogni...

REGINA - Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe is set to face questions about affordability, hospitals and damaging canola tariffs when the legislature resumes Wednesday. The Opposition NDP says the topics w...

TORONTO - Ontario's deal with the federal government to operate a $10-a-day child-care system in the province is set to expire in five months, but there has been little apparent progress in extension ...