Tag Archives: Politics

HALIFAX - Advocates against gender-based violence in Nova Scotia are calling on the Progressive Conservative government to reconsider Marco MacLeod's role as energy minister due to misogynistic rap ly...

OTTAWA - Economists are warning that a re-escalation in the trade war with the United States puts Canada's burgeoning economic recovery at risk. The U.S. imposed 50 per cent tariffs on roughly $28 bil...

The United States needs to feel the pain in response to President Donald Trump's latest trade war escalation, Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Monday as he and the president traded insults. Ford had ear...

OTTAWA - The federal government is set to unveil details of Canada's retaliatory tariffs against the United States on Tuesday. Finance Minister Franois-Philippe Champagne, Industry Minister Mlanie Jol...

MONTREAL - Montreal's municipal council adopted a motion of solidarity with the Palestinian people in a meeting on Monday night. The motion, which contained multiple amendments from the one originally...

MONTRAL - Four years ago, Franois Legault's Coalition Avenir Qubec party was so far in the lead at the start of the provincial election campaign that the only debate was who would finish second. The o...

OTTAWA - Standing outside Russia's embassy in Ottawa, retiree Karen Niven-Wigston is decked out in yellow and blue, holding a pink plastic flamingo as a sign of support for Ukraine. "If Canadians knew...

OTTAWA - First Nations are stuck in a "spiralling cycle" during wildfire seasons due to a lack of co-ordinated emergency management supports and a severe housing gap, the federal housing advocate is w...

DUCK LAKE - Treaty 6, primarily covering most of what's now central Alberta and central Saskatchewan, was signed 150 years ago by the Crown and First Nations chiefs. Festivities honouring the annivers...

DUCK LAKE - Standing in the same place where it was signed, politicians, Crown representatives, Indigenous chiefs and elders marked the 150th anniversary of Treaty 6 on Sunday by saying they hoped the...