Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - Some of Canada's leading environmental groups are pushing the federal government to change aspects of proposed legislation to speed up development of major projects before it's tabled this fa...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday he will have one simple message for Vladimir Putin if the Russian president attends the G20 leaders' summit this December in Florida: "get out of Ukra...

OTTAWA - The Federal Court has ordered the release of some long-concealed passages of a 1986 study prepared for a landmark federal commission of inquiry on war crimes. In a new ruling, Federal Court J...

THUNDER BAY - Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a $4.7 billion contract to build 313 new passenger cars for Via Rail on Thursday. Carney made the announcement at the Alstom plant in Thunder Bay, On...

MONTREAL - Jrme Dupras spent much of his twenties on the road, playing bass guitar across Quebec and beyond. In 1997, he joined a band with friends. That summer, the folk rock group anonymously releas...

TORONTO - Little has changed at Queen's Park after Ontario Premier Doug Ford's Progressive Conservatives and the Opposition New Democrats held on to their seats in three byelections Thursday. Progress...

TORONTO - Two more whales have died at a Chicago aquarium, including one that recently moved there as part of the massive undertaking to relocate 30 belugas and four dolphins from Marineland. The whal...

DARTMOUTH - When Ace Machining Ltd. president Ron Wallace needed a new piece of equipment for his Dartmouth, N.S., shop, he knew for certain it wouldn't be coming from the United States. "Our normal p...

VICTORIA - British Columbia Conservative Leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay said she was the victim of a "co-ordinated political attack" after she accepted the resignation of her chief of staff and two more l...

MONTREAL - Federalism was top of mind for party leaders on Wednesday, the seventh day of the Quebec election campaign. Sovereigntist Parti Qubcois leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon found himself on the ...