Tag Archives: Politics

TORONTO - Canada has an opportunity to leap ahead and reap the economic gains of climate action as the U.S. retreats, said several speakers at the launch of the first Toronto Climate Week on Wednesday...

OTTAWA - The lawyer for a man accused of accessing Prime Minister Mark Carney's banking data says he is still awaiting some information from the Crown in the case. Ron Guertin, counsel for former Roya...

CALGARY - Premier Danielle Smith says Alberta is committing $14 million to a West Coast oil pipeline do-over that hinges on First Nations getting on board early and Ottawa reversing a tanker ban that ...

HALIFAX - A significant cut to Nova Scotia's home heating program was called out by the Opposition NDP leader on Wednesday, who said 46,000 fewer households are eligible for the rebate this year. Clau...

OTTAWA - Ottawa Public Health says it's being forced to close a supervised consumption site in the city's ByWard Market area because Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones hasn't given her permission fo...

A federal buyback of assault-style firearms from individual owners announced earlier this month prompted misleading social media posts from American influencers saying it will soon become "criminal" t...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney is appointing a "personal representative" to the European Union to oversee trade and defence ties with the bloc, sunsetting a role that focused in part on human rig...

TORONTO - Ontario's environment ministry says it will miss its 2030 greenhouse gas emissions reduction target but the auditor general says even that admission of failure is downplayed. Auditor general...

OTTAWA - Industry Minister Mlanie Joly says Ottawa is going to be "hawkish" on competition in a bid to ease the cost of living. She says affordability is top of mind for Canadians and expanding market...

The U.S. government is taking a minority stake in Lithium Americas, a company that is developing one of the world's largest lithium mines in northern Nevada. The Department of Energy will take a 5% eq...