Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand arrived Tuesday in the Persian Gulf, a region where Canada is aiming to strengthen ties on defence and security amid an uptick in visits and investment de...

TORONTO - Funding of special education in Ontario is not keeping pace with the growth in need, which is rising faster than general enrolment, the province's auditor general said Tuesday. In a report o...

TORONTO - New artificial intelligence transcription services for doctors are at risk of providing inaccurate information and outright hallucinations, the province's auditor general concluded in a spec...

OTTAWA - A United Nations panel is calling on Ottawa to make it a priority to eliminate the second-generation cutoff in the Indian Act. In a technical advice paper published last week, the United Nati...

OTTAWA - The federal government is extending the contracts of about 750 term workers at its pay centre to manage a surge in expected job cuts. Nicole Allen, spokesperson for Public Services and Procur...

VANCOUVER - The federal and B.C. governments want artificial intelligence firms to have a strong foothold in Canada to spur economic and job growth, but say there's also a need for guardrails on the t...

OTTAWA - The former environment minister who helped to create the Impact Assessment Agency eight years ago says the federal government's proposal to change how pipelines are assessed risks delaying th...

ST. JOHN'S - Newfoundland and Labrador's information and privacy commissioner says governments need to work together to hold big technology companies to account in the wake of a cyberattack that affec...

QUBEC - Parti Qubcois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon says he's worried the federal government is spying on his party. St-Pierre Plamondon told reporters on Tuesday he has no proof but says there's a ...

FREDERICTON - The New Brunswick government has proposed an overhaul of its lobbying rules that would require hundreds more people to register as lobbyists and would empower the provincial ethics chief...