Tag Archives: Politics

MONTREAL - Montrealers have chosen Soraya Martinez Ferrada, a Chilean refugee who became a federal minister, as their new mayor in a vote for change that has unseated the city's left-leaning governmen...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - Martha Layne Collins, the first and only woman elected governor of Kentucky, died on Saturday. She was 88. The Democrat's most visible legacy is a sprawling Toyota auto assembly ...

OTTAWA - When Nancy Payne lays a wreath on Remembrance Day at the National War Memorial, it won't be the first time she's represented mothers of Canadian soldiers who have died in combat. But it will ...

OTTAWA - Bob Rae knows that as Canada's ambassador to the United Nations he had a habit of going off-message with Global Affairs Canada but he has no regrets. He says it created a healthy tension, eve...

EDMONTON - The Alberta government is starting to roll out compensation for the families of children who were kept out of classrooms during a three-week teachers strike. Premier Danielle Smith's govern...

VICTORIA - British Columbia Finance Minister Brenda Bailey said she would look into a plan by BC Assessment that would cut the taxable value of pipelines and other projects in a move that has angered ...

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is calling on the federal government to invoke the Charter's notwithstanding clause to overturn a new Supreme Court ruling on child pornography. The top court...

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government plans to build more data storage infrastructure in the province so people rely less on storage and cloud-computing services offered by Google, Microsoft and other co...

NEW YORK (AP) - President Donald Trump's request to add a documentary proof of citizenship requirement to the federal voter registration form cannot be enforced, a federal judge ruled Friday. U.S. Dis...

Finance minister Franois-Philippe Champagne will use Tuesday's federal budget to close a tax loophole critics say is exploiting workers and creating unfair labour practices in the trucking industry. A...