Tag Archives: Politics

HALIFAX - The organization that has trained and advocated on behalf of Nova Scotia foster parents for five decades says the provincial government plans to cut all its funding next year. The Federation...

OTTAWA - The United Nations official left to oversee not just children's welfare but also water and sanitation in the Gaza Strip is praising Canada's support for Palestinians - but warns that some of ...

OTTAWA - Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree committed Monday "to get to the bottom" of the arrest of a Canadian in Europe on spying charges. The Belgian federal prosecutor's office said Saturd...

CALGARY - Beginning Friday, Albertans will be able to pay out of pocket for diagnostic screening tests, including an MRI and an ultrasound, and without a doctor's referral. The new change can help tho...

TORONTO - Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow wants the city's islands' land back. The mayor said Monday the Ontario government should return lands it recently expropriated through new legislation, which was pa...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to clear the way for an executive order from President Donald Trump that could dramatically change mail-in voting. The emer...

COLD LAKE - An Alberta caf owner says his business has shuttered after he hosted separatists and lost customers. John Ewanek says his caf in Cold Lake, called Beantrees, was already struggling due to ...

CALGARY - Calgary's Olympic Oval is getting an upgrade. The federal and provincial governments are equally splitting a $52-million contribution to the renewal of the speedskating facility built for th...

LUNENBURG - The Nova Scotia government is spending millions of dollars to help a Lunenburg, N.S., daycare grow its number of child care spaces by almost 70 per cent. Local representative Susan Corkum-...

WASHINGTON - No one is shocked these days when U.S. President Donald Trump calls Canada the "51st state" or refers to Prime Minister Mark Carney as a "governor." But Trump's habit of occasionally targ...