Tag Archives: Politics

HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia government is weakening democracy by packing bills with an unreasonable number of legislative changes, say opposition parties and political scientists. Alex Marland, a politi...

OTTAWA - Rob Ashton, president of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, pitched himself as a voice for the "working class" as he launched his bid for the federal NDP leadership on Wednesday...

WINNIPEG - Security may be increased at the constituency offices of Manitoba legislature members in the wake of recent fires and vandalism that are being investigated by police. "We're evolving as a l...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The federal government was thrown into a shutdown Wednesday with no easy endgame in sight, as Democrats held firm to their demands to salvage health care subsidies that President Don...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House is withdrawing the nomination of E.J. Antoni to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics, according to a White House official and an AP source who spoke on the condition o...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Democrats have voted down a Republican bill to keep funding the government, putting it on a near certain path to a shutdown after midnight Wednesday for the first time in almo...

OTTAWA - With the prospect of public service cuts looming over the capital, an Ottawa economic development agency is making a pitch for federal help to grow out the local defence industry and turn it ...

QUBEC - In an attempt to revive his party's political fortunes, Quebec Premier Franois Legault has outlined what he calls a "new economic vision" for the province. During an inaugural speech Tuesday i...

OTTAWA - Nigel Wright, a longtime Canadian businessman and former top aide to prime minister Stephen Harper, has died. Onex, the private equity firm where Wright worked for nearly three decades, annou...

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand is off to India and China in the coming weeks, where she plans to take two distinct approaches to mending frayed ties with the world's two most populous c...