Tag Archives: Politics

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has directed officials to invoke the Charter's notwithstanding clause in amending three laws that affect transgender people, says a leaked government memo obt...

EDMONTON - The Alberta government has chosen not to renew a regulation banning the practice of "carding" by police officers, but the province says the practice is still prohibited under other laws. Th...

WINNIPEG - A First Nation in Manitoba is taking the province to court in an attempt to put a halt to moose harvesting in its territory, saying it infringes on the community's right to hunt for food an...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate has confirmed 48 of President Donald Trump's nominees at once, voting for the first time under new rules to begin clearing a backlog of executive branch positions that had...

VICTORIA - A Conservative MLA says she is "deeply concerned" about allegations of improper membership sign ups that were forwarded to her and others by the party's executive, ahead of final voting on ...

OTTAWA - The federal government's request to Canada's top court for limits on the notwithstanding clause isn't only about Quebec's secularism law, Justice Minister Sean Fraser said on Thursday. In a m...

ST. JOHN'S - Staff shortages forced officials to cancel routine blood collection in some parts of Newfoundland and Labrador's largest hospital on Wednesday, according to an internal memo from the prov...

QUBEC - A member of the Coalition Avenir Qubec recently booted from cabinet has resigned from the party and says she no longer has faith in Premier Franois Legault. Mat Blanchette Vzina says she will ...

HALIFAX - A group of Nova Scotia government ministers still hasn't met with a panel that was tasked with examining environmental racism in the province, despite promising the meeting nearly three mont...

EDMONTON - The ripple effects of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk's killing continued to be felt across Canada on Thursday as an Alberta university confirmed it was facing threats, and a major TV ...