Tag Archives: Politics

MONTREAL - Jrme Dupras spent much of his twenties on the road, playing bass guitar across Quebec and beyond. In 1997, he joined a band with friends. That summer, the folk rock group anonymously releas...

TORONTO - Little has changed at Queen's Park after Ontario Premier Doug Ford's Progressive Conservatives and the Opposition New Democrats held on to their seats in three byelections Thursday. Progress...

TORONTO - Two more whales have died at a Chicago aquarium, including one that recently moved there as part of the massive undertaking to relocate 30 belugas and four dolphins from Marineland. The whal...

DARTMOUTH - When Ace Machining Ltd. president Ron Wallace needed a new piece of equipment for his Dartmouth, N.S., shop, he knew for certain it wouldn't be coming from the United States. "Our normal p...

VICTORIA - British Columbia Conservative Leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay said she was the victim of a "co-ordinated political attack" after she accepted the resignation of her chief of staff and two more l...

MONTREAL - Federalism was top of mind for party leaders on Wednesday, the seventh day of the Quebec election campaign. Sovereigntist Parti Qubcois leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon found himself on the ...

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba Labour Board is scheduled to hear a request next week that medical laboratory staff be deemed essential workers - the same day they're set to go on strike. Labour Minister Mala...

FREDERICTON - The New Brunswick government says Carleton AgriSolutions Inc. will take over the province's large animal veterinary services beginning next spring. A news release says the company based ...

OTTAWA - MP Lori Idlout contravened the House of Commons conflict of interest code, Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Konrad von Finckenstein announced today. The commissioner's office repo...

MONTREAL - lections Qubec says it is too late to make changes to the unilingual French documents it is mailing to voters ahead of the Oct. 5 election despite facing backlash from the anglophone commun...