Tag Archives: Politics

MONTREAL - Montreal's public transit agency is telling employees they can no longer pray on workplace property, as parts of Quebec's new secularism law come into effect on Sept. 1. The Quebec governme...

OTTAWA - The federal government is asking a Federal Court judge to toss out a lawsuit accusing Ottawa of having no intention of meeting its 2030 greenhouse gas emissions target. In recent court filing...

Construction on the longest stretch of a road network to Ontario's mineral-rich Ring of Fire region has begun. The provincial government announced today that ground has been broken on a road to eventu...

When Bruce Banman crossed the floor to join John Rustad in the B.C. Conservatives in 2023, it was a key moment that both conferred official party status and set the Conservatives on a path that brough...

OTTAWA - The Belgian federal prosecutor's office says a Canadian facing espionage charges will remain in custody. After a hearing today of the woman's appeal of a July decision to keep her in detentio...

NEW YORK (AP) - The online prediction market platform Kalshi said Monday that it has permanently banned former U.S. Rep. George Santos after concluding the former Republican congressman likely engaged...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney is overhauling the leadership of the federal agency responsible for attracting foreign investment just weeks before a high-profile summit aimed at doing just that. ...

WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump contacted Apple directly to pressure the tech giant to change the name of Lake Ontario to "Lake America," a top administration official said Monday. U.S. Inter...

OTTAWA - Voting gets underway today in byelections in three federal ridings, including what could be a close race in rural Quebec. Conservative Richard Martel resigned his seat in Chicoutimi-Le Fjord ...

NORTH VANCOUVER - Braeden Caley, a former political aide to Prime Minister Mark Carney, will trade in his staffer hat for an MP's lapel pin after winning the federal byelection in the British Columbia...