Tag Archives: Politics

HALIFAX - The U.S. ambassador to Canada took aim at those who use the term "trade war" to describe economic tension between the two countries at an event in Halifax Thursday, saying he was frustrated ...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney is appointing his principal secretary David Lametti as Canada's next ambassador to the United Nations. The Prime Minister's Office announced Thursday that Lametti, ...

OTTAWA - As Ottawa warns its symbolic recognition of Palestinian statehood next week won't immediately lead to a full embassy, pro-Palestinian activists say the Liberals should not be imposing conditi...

TORONTO - Ontario's doctors have a new, four-year agreement with the province that will give them increased general compensation and see family doctors paid for administrative work, which they and the...

Canada Post is sending new offers to the Canadian Union of Postal Workers in an effort to move negotiations forward, the postal service said Thursday. The new terms will allow the two sides to return ...

OTTAWA - The financial returns from Ottawa's capital spending plans in the upcoming fall budget will help Canada pay down the deficit in later years, Finance Minister Franois-Philippe Champagne said o...

OTTAWA - The Conservatives introduced a law in the House of Commons on Thursday that would classify the killing of an intimate partner as a first-degree murder. The private members' bill was introduce...

WASHINGTON - A Republican lawmaker on Wednesday alleged the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has the names of some of the late Jeffrey Epstein's clients, including a "billionaire from Canada." Rep...

BURNABY - Public service workers in British Columbia are again escalating job action, picketing a citizens' services office that issues services cards, processes freedom of information requests and fa...

MONTREAL - A member of Quebec's legislature says she will take down her professional Facebook page, unable to filter the hateful comments and spam it regularly attracts. Christine Labrie of leftist pa...