Tag Archives: Politics

VANCOUVER - The lack of suicide-prevention barriers on Vancouver's Granville Street Bridge is "inexcusable," those pushing for the measures say, after a woman fell to her death in an incident that unf...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba is looking at having a commissioner or regulator enforce its proposed ban on social media and artificial intelligence chatbots for children under 16. Premier Wab Kinew said Wednesd...

EDMONTON - Elections Alberta says the separatist group at the centre of a massive voter information breach may not have shared the full list of individuals who accessed its public database. The agency...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. Senate on Wednesday confirmed Kevin Warsh to lead the Federal Reserve. President Donald Trump had picked the former Fed governor to replace Jerome Powell, believing that War...

OTTAWA - The Canadian military is formally asking the defence industry to identify what companies can offer to either upgrade or replace Canada's aging fleet of tanks. The federal government published...

OTTAWA - About 6,200 federal public servants have applied to retire early, with just more than two months to go until the deadline. The Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat website says 6,214 applicat...

EDMONTON - A judge threw out an Alberta separatist petition Wednesday, ruling the province had a duty to consult with First Nations - a decision quickly declared "anti-democratic" by Premier Danielle ...

TORONTO - All Ontario career colleges that offer commercial truck driver training will have been inspected by the end of next month, the province's minister of colleges and universities said Wednesday...

VANCOUVER - Former Mountie William Majcher stood on the steps outside Vancouver's law court on Wednesday to say he was "very relieved" at being found not guilty of acting unlawfully for the Chinese go...

OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada's governing council says it's weighing a range of different paths for its benchmark interest rate to cope with inflation risks from the Iran war. On Wednesday, the central ...