Tag Archives: Politics

VICTORIA - The British Columbia government says cutting red tape has allowed provincial pulp mills to more than double their use of timber salvaged from forest fires. The Ministry of Forests says in a...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba is opening up free vaccine eligibility following a hepatitis A outbreak in a remote area of the province that includes four First Nations. Health officials say they've documented 2...

OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada's governing council says it's difficult to predict which direction interest rates may go as trade uncertainty clouds its outlook. The central bank released a summary Tuesda...

Citizen-led recall petitions were officially approved Tuesday against three more Alberta legislature members, bringing the total to 26. Twenty-four of those petitions are for United Conservative Party...

EDMONTON - Elections Alberta issued three more recall petitions Tuesday for members of the provincial legislature - two United Conservative backbenchers and one Opposition New Democrat. It brings the ...

OTTAWA - Advocates for Palestinians are urging Ottawa to do more to stop a deteriorating humanitarian situation in Gaza, saying the release of Israeli hostages hasn't stopped preventable deaths and vi...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew says he's not going to fulfil a 2023 election campaign promise to regulate gas prices. The promise, outlined in the New Democrats' campaign platform, was to give ...

MONTRAL - Pablo Rodriguez's successor as leader of the Quebec Liberal Party will be elected at a convention on March 14. The party announced today its nine-week leadership race will officially begin o...

HALIFAX - A former university president who oversaw the report that led to a decade-long ban on fracking in Nova Scotia is questioning the government's claims that new natural-gas development will low...

OTTAWA - U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff campaign against Canada - and the surge in patriotic zeal it inspired - have been voted The Canadian Press News Story of the Year. Nearly two-thirds of ed...