Tag Archives: Politics

Canada's telecommunications regulator is mandating service providers to notify it and other government authorities within two hours when they experience a major network outage. After restoring service...

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick's elections agency is warning that it has an outdated management system and faces other challenges that threaten its ability to run a free and fair vote. In its most recent...

WINNIPEG - A brother and sister are dead and several others injured, including a Mountie, after a mass stabbing Thursday on a small, tight-knit First Nation northeast of Winnipeg. "I ask the community...

Prime Minister Mark Carney's parliamentary secretary will go to China to join Saskatchewan's efforts to get Beijing to scrap its canola tariffs and address other "trade irritants," the prime minister'...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's wait-list for public housing surpassed 8,000 people in June - a jump of about 1,200 people over an eight-month period, according to figures released Thursday by the Opposition ...

QUBEC - Mired in scandal and dismal polling numbers, Quebec Premier Franois Legault will shuffle his cabinet next week and prorogue the provincial legislature until the end of the month. In a statemen...

CONCEPTION BAY SOUTH - A town in eastern Newfoundland that was running out of water because of a leaking pipe has lifted a state of emergency. The emergency was declared Tuesday when officials in Conc...

VANCOUVER - Strike action by public service workers from the BC General Employees' Union entered its third day with pickets in front of a Vancouver building that houses a Ministry of Finance office, a...

GATINEAU - The Competition Bureau is seeking input from Canadians as it prepares to begin its review of competition in lending for small- and medium-sized businesses. The regulator is giving Canadians...

TORONTO - The head of a controversial right-wing American think tank dropped off the list of speakers who were set to brief Prime Minister Mark Carney and his cabinet behind closed doors Thursday. Kev...