Tag Archives: Politics

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - The Wisconsin governor's creative use of his uniquely powerful veto to lock in a school funding increase for 400 years may be "attention grabbing," but it was constitutional, the ...

BALTIMORE (AP) - A federal judge on Thursday imposed new restrictions on billionaire Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, limiting its access to Social Security systems that hold personal ...

EDMONTON - The Alberta government has announced the appointment of a new interim chief medical officer of health, days after the previous one's contract expired. Officials say Dr. Sunil Sookram is to ...

EDMONTON - An outspoken member of Alberta's legislature, booted from the United Conservative Party caucus, is airing more detailed allegations of what he calls government deception over a health-care ...

VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Park Board says it's gearing up for "unpermitted" events on April 20 including on Sunset Beach, where thousands of people gathered in recent years to smoke cannabis to the ch...

EDMONTON - Alberta's transportation minister is calling on the province's two major cities to remove bike lanes from key roadways, prompting critics to say the government is overstepping and making an...

VANCOUVER - The University of British Columbia has briefly reopened admissions for its graduate programs to take applications from U.S. citizens in what is a growing trend for Canadian institutions as...

REGINA - The Saskatchewan legislature has unanimously passed an Opposition NDP private members' bill to formally recognize Sikh Heritage Month in April. Bhajan Brar's legislation says the month is imp...

WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump showed little signs of backing down on his plans to tariff the world Thursday - even as members of his administration continued to claim the duties will lead t...

MONTREAL - WestJet has walked back its bid to put temporary foreign workers in the cockpit. In an email, spokeswoman Julia Kaiser confirmed that the airline halted its hunt for overseas recruits for r...