Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - Three of the five NDP leadership candidates had their first face-to-face encounter, which serves as a preview for next month's French debate. Rob Ashton, Avi Lewis and Heather McPherson took ...

A new global health report suggests that every year from 2020 to 2024 about 1,400 deaths in Canada were associated with wildfire smoke pollution as climate change takes an increasing toll on the count...

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...