Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - Federal Housing Minister Gregor Robertson says the average price of housing - not necessarily individual home values - must fall to restore affordability in Canada. Robertson was before the H...

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre returned to the House of Commons Monday afternoon to a chorus of calls from across the aisle for him to apologize over comments he made last week about th...

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is demanding that Prime Minister Mark Carney cut taxes and keep the federal deficit under $42 billion in the coming budget. It seems clear the latter will...

VICTORIA - Legislator Amelia Boultbee has quit the British Columbia Conservative caucus and is calling on leader John Rustad to resign, saying he told her to "get the F out." Boultbee is the fifth MLA...

OTTAWA - The federal government still has not issued specific criteria to define the "national interest" under its new major projects law, despite calls from MPs to do so. The Building Canada Act allo...

HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia government has awarded a $2.18-million contract without any competition for a consulting firm to help it deliver better homecare services. Barbara Adams, minister of seniors ...

MONTREAL - The lawyer for a former Bloc Qubcois MP who lost her riding by a single vote in the April federal election says allowing the result to stand would send a "disastrous message" to voters. A t...

An Indigenous advocate in northern Ontario says his community's past experience with Anglo American PLC's diamond-mining subsidiary De Beers does not inspire confidence that a proposed merger between ...

OTTAWA - The federal Liberals say they plan to direct banks to have new policies and procedures in place to detect and prevent fraud. The proposed legislative amendments would require that banks obtai...

EDMONTON - A labour relations professor is criticizing the Alberta government's threat to legislate striking teachers back to work as about 750,000 students entered a third week of cancelled classes M...