Tag Archives: Politics

MONTRAL - A group representing Quebec municipalities is calling on the next provincial government to boost funding for public transit agencies, which say they will need $20 billion by 2035 just to mai...

REGINA - As Ottawa appears to inch closer to a trade deal with India, Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says he hopes the agreement addresses punishing tariffs on pulse crops. But Moe says if the deal do...

SAINT-HYACINTHE - Bloc Qubcois MP Simon-Pierre Savard-Tremblay has confirmed he'll resign his seat in the House of Commons to run for the Parti Qubcois in the fall provincial election. Savard-Tremblay...

VICTORIA - Elections BC says it has found no evidence of deliberate violations in a Metro Vancouver riding that helped give the NDP government a one-seat majority after the 2024 provincial vote. The a...

EDMONTON - Elections Alberta says a massive hiring effort for the fall referendum on the province's place in Canada is to get underway early next month. The agency has said between 60,000 and 90,000 e...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Louisiana lawmakers passed a new congressional map Friday designed to help Republicans pick up a seat while eliminating one of the state's two majority-Black House districts, b...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Former Attorney General Pam Bondi refused to answer questions Friday on President Donald Trump's involvement in the release of the Jeffrey Epstein case files as she defended the Trum...

OTTAWA - Drones made in Canada could be headed for the battlefield in Ukraine, thanks to a new corporate partnership between Canadian and Ukrainian drone makers. The defence ministers of Canada and Uk...

OTTAWA - The federal government posted a deficit of $55.28 billion for its 2025-26 fiscal year compared with a $43.15-billion deficit a year earlier, according to the Finance Department's monthly fisc...

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick legislators agreed Friday to hold hearings on systemic failures within the province's child welfare system. The hearings are in response to a report from the youth advocate...