Tag Archives: Politics

WASHINGTON (AP) - The national debt surpassed a record $40 trillion on Wednesday, a staggering milestone as defense costs, social programs like Social Security and Medicare and interest on the burgeon...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - A Missouri judge has allowed new U.S. House districts backed by President Donald Trump to be used in the November elections, rejecting a bid by to put the Republican-friendl...

TORONTO - Royal Bank of Canada has hired Caroline Mulroney as vice chair and she is to report to Derek Neldner, the head of capital markets, starting Sept. 14. Mulroney is a former Ontario cabinet min...

REGINA - Those swearing oaths or making affirmations in Saskatchewan provincial courts can now do so with an eagle feather. The Provincial Court of Saskatchewan says the addition of the feather keeps ...

OTTAWA - Canada and the U.S. averted an escalation in the trade tensions with an agreement to continue hammering out a deal that would prevent new American tariffs from taking effect Wednesday. U.S. P...

The Competition Bureau is seeking to block Nortera Foods' proposed deal to buy the Green Giant and Le Sieur brands of canned and frozen vegetables in Canada from U.S.-based B&G Foods. Nortera is a...

TORONTO - A former Liberal MP and federal housing minister is putting his hat in the ring for a Toronto city council seat. Nate Erskine-Smith says he's running to represent the east-end ward of Beache...

WASHINGTON - Canada-U.S. Minister Dominic LeBlanc smiled widely beside U.S. President Donald Trump's trade czar in Washington on Wednesday as they touted a draft deal which appears to have averted a n...

TORONTO - As the last wave of mortgage renewals from the era of ultra-low interest rates comes, a new survey suggests most homeowners have been managing higher payments. A Royal LePage report says mor...

LACOMBE - Alberta's technology minister was jeered, badgered and booed late Wednesday by a room packed with hundreds of people over the province's plans for an artificial intelligence data centre. Nat...