Tag Archives: Politics

EDMONTON - It's all over but the recommendations for Premier Danielle Smith's Alberta Next panel, a touring summer town hall that saw Smith lionized and criticized amid straw polls, finger pointing, s...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney says he sees an opening for Canada to attract global tech talent now that the United States is introducing a $100,000 fee for temporary visas for workers with speci...

MONTREAL - Federal Energy Minister Tim Hodgson says it's too early to say whether a liquefied natural gas facility pitched for Quebec meets the bar of being in the national interest. "My sense is this...

EDMONTON - The former Alberta politician trying to keep the province from splitting up with Canada says his campaign is zeroing in on its goal, but he's not slowing down. Thomas Lukaszuk's Forever Can...

OTTAWA - The Department of National Defence says the Royal Canadian Air Force flypast during King Charles III's visit to Ottawa this spring cost more than $824,700. The department released a tally of ...

TORONTO - Marineland has asked Ottawa for emergency funding to feed and care for the last captive whales in the country, saying euthanasia is otherwise imminent and will be a "direct consequence" of t...

OTTAWA - As the Supreme Court of Canada considers whether to hear the case of a B.C. farm that's fighting to save its ostriches from a Canadian Food Inspection Agency cull, politicians in Ottawa appea...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina's Democratic governor signed into law on Friday a criminal justice measure that the state's Republican-controlled legislature approved in response to the stabbing d...

OTTAWA - The Senate is no longer allowing senators to be reimbursed for spouses receiving language training. The changes were passed yesterday at a Senate committee meeting on internal economy, budget...

BARRIE - For the past 15 years, Shania Steeves has slept on sidewalks and stayed in overcrowded, sometimes unsafe shelters. She has been homeless off and on for nearly half of her life, and she has al...