Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - Newly released documents show some members of the Bank of Canada were wondering last month whether the central bank's benchmark interest rate is already low enough to support the Canadian eco...

Farmer Bill Prybylski says China's planned tariff on canola seed wasn't factored into his business equations this year. The president of the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan says the...

Shares in Hudbay Minerals Inc. surged after it announced a deal with Mitsubishi Corp. to sell a 30 per cent stake in an Arizona copper project the Toronto-based miner says will support U.S. national s...

OTTAWA - Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner says the federal government needs to do more to fight Canada's devastating forest fires. Speaking to reporters Wednesday in Ottawa, the Alberta MP accus...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump on Wednesday named country music star George Strait, "Rocky" actor Sylvester Stallone, singer Gloria Gaynor, the rock band Kiss and actor-singer Michael Crawfo...

OTTAWA - Former Liberal justice minister Irwin Cotler has joined thousands of Jews calling on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to end the war and starvation in Gaza. The longtime human rights...

TORONTO - Ontario failed to meet its legislated target for getting long-term care residents an average of four hours a day of direct care by March of this year, the government concedes, though it came...

OTTAWA - A former top general who led the military during the Afghanistan conflict is urging Prime Minister Mark Carney's government to revisit the files of soldiers who served there to see if any of ...

WHITEHORSE - The Yukon has signed an agreement with the state of Alaska to address the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous people. The territorial government says the memorandum of understanding...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Former U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, Ohio's best-known Democrat, is expected to make another run for the U.S. Senate next year, giving Democrats a likely boost as they wage an uphill ...