Tag Archives: Politics

VICTORIA - The British Columbia government has tabled what it says is the first law in Canada to recover health care costs from companies that use "deceptive practices" to sell vaping products. Attorn...

WASHINGTON - Prime Minister Mark Carney met with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington this week to advance negotiations on lifting or easing a growing list of tariffs. Trump's ever-shifting tarif...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government has split its border security bill in two in the hope of seeing some measures pass swiftly while giving Canadians more time to evaluate other, more contentious ones. Bi...

OTTAWA - Mark Carney has received more than a dozen gifts from world leaders since becoming prime minister - everything from Herms ties and crystal bowls to a sculpture of Winston Churchill. But the g...

ST. JOHN'S - An advocacy group in Newfoundland and Labrador says three activists from the province were recently detained by the Israeli military while they were part of a flotilla to deliver humanita...

VANCOUVER - A former Kamloops, B.C., lawyer admits to killing his client, but his defence counsel says it wasn't planned and that evidence at the trial doesn't support a first-degree murder conviction...

Estefania Montes says she couldn't afford groceries while working for a New Brunswick shellfish processing company in 2023. "When I was working for the company, I spent money, I didn't make any money,...

VANCOUVER - Elections BC has found billionaire Chip Wilson contravened election advertising rules when he put up signs in front of his Vancouver mansion ahead of the provincial election last year, one...

OTTAWA - The Conservatives are calling for a new limit on birthright citizenship, a measure they say would mirror the rules in peer countries and curb the risk of abuse of the immigration system. Unde...

OTTAWA - Interim NDP Leader Don Davies says his party wants to see the coming budget offer more investment in health care, affordable non-market housing and projects that create unionized jobs. Speaki...