Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - Five candidates have met the final requirements in the NDP's leadership election and will have their names on the ballot when party members choose a new leader for the beleaguered party. Rob ...

OTTAWA - B.C. Premier David Eby said a wave of extortion crime in the province is a "terror attack in slow motion." Eby, who was speaking in Ottawa after a premiers meeting with Prime Minister Mark Ca...

SAINT-GEORGES - The leader of the Parti Qubcois and Ontario Premier Doug Ford traded barbs Thursday after the latter dipped his toe in Quebec politics for a second straight day repeating that it would...

MONTREAL - Quebec's private doctors federation is mounting a legal challenge against a law that requires all new doctors to practice in the province's public system for five years. The Fdration des md...

EDMONTON - Alberta's 9,000 unionized provincial employees are going back to the office full-time starting this weekend, but not without a brown bag protest. Bobby-Joe Borodey, vice-president of the Al...

OTTAWA - Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree said he doesn't foresee logistical challenges in gathering up banned firearms through a federal buyback program, despite the refusal of several prov...

WINNIPEG - A coalition of environmental, labour and other groups said Thursday the Manitoba government must spend more money on climate protection in order to meet its emissions and land-protection ta...

TOBIQUE FIRST NATION - The chief of Neqotkuk First Nation wants provincial and federal support to establish an Indigenous-led policing agency on the reserve, following the death of a community member ...

MONTREAL - Quebec is launching a new home health-care policy that will make some family caregivers eligible for government funding. Health Minister Sonia Blanger says the policy is aimed at improving ...

OTTAWA - For the third time in just under a year, Pierre Poilievre's political fate will be in the hands of voters this Friday - though this time, it's a small group of partisan supporters who appear ...