Tag Archives: Politics

JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. (AP) - Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Friday opened the door ever so slightly to lowering a key interest rate in the coming months but gave no hint on the timing of a move a...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney will soon travel to Europe in a bid to deepen economic and security ties with Germany. Carney told reporters Friday he will meet with German Chancellor Friedrich Me...

MONTREAL - Quebec's finance minister says $300,000 of expiring American alcohol that is banned from the province's shelves will be donated rather than destroyed. Eric Girard's comments come after the ...

OTTAWA - Cultural and broadcast industry groups are calling on the Liberal government to support the Online Streaming Act and the Online News Act, as the Prime Minister's Office refuses to say whether...

MIAMI (AP) - A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction Thursday halting further expansion and ordering the winding down of an immigration detention center built in the middle of the Florida Ever...

SACRAMENTO, Calif (AP) - California voters will decide in November whether to approve a redrawn congressional map designed to help Democrats win five more U.S. House seats next year, after Texas Repub...

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said Thursday her government's sudden shift in COVID-19 vaccination policy was prompted by union demands. Earlier this week, her health ministry said COVID-19 vaccine co...

OKANAGAN FALLS - British Columbia's government has appointed a facilitator to help create the province's first new municipality in 15 years, after residents of Okanagan Falls in the southern Interior ...

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government says the landfill search that succeeded in finding the remains of two slain First Nations women cost $18 million, with $2 million more expected in the coming weeks t...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Trump administration can slash hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of research funding in its push to cut federal diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, the Supreme Court de...