Tag Archives: Politics

MONTREAL - Outgoing Quebec Premier Christine Frchette says she is leaving politics with her head held high despite a crushing defeat in Monday's provincial election. She told reporters she had resigne...

EDMONTON - A proposed three-year master pay deal with the provincial government has been ratified by members of the Alberta Medical Association. Both the government and the association representing ph...

OTTAWA - Quebec Sen. Richard Martel is back in the opposition caucus after joining the Conservative Senate group today. Sen. Leo Housakos, the opposition leader in the Senate, says Martel is a "natura...

EDMONTON - Leading figures in the push for Alberta separation are celebrating the election of Quebec premier-designate Paul St-Pierre Plamondon. Jeff Rath said Tuesday that St-Pierre Plamondon's elect...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney is returning to Turkey later this month as he seeks to boost trade and defence ties with a country with rising importance. Carney was in Turkey for the NATO summit ...

TORONTO - Ontario has asked provincial police to look into student financial assistance payments at private career colleges after auditors identified "serious concerns" about possible criminal activit...

OTTAWA - Canada's foreign influence transparency commissioner suggests it's too early to tell whether people are complying with new obligations to report information to his office. Commissioner Anton ...

Justice Minister Sean Fraser says the government is nearly ready to reveal its long-awaited decision on the next steps for medical assistance in dying in Canada, which is expected to address whether t...

FREDERICTON - A Green Party politician in New Brunswick is calling on the provincial government to reveal how many artificial intelligence data centres are being proposed for the province. Green legis...

OTTAWA - The grand chief of Treaty 8 First Nations stood behind Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith last week as they announced the Pacific Link pipeline was the first projec...