Tag Archives: Politics

EDMONTON - Alberta's government is looking to regulate private online gambling websites and apps in a move it says will capture lost revenue and protect bettors. If passed, new legislation tabled Wedn...

VICTORIA - A study and poll from the office of British Columbia's seniors' advocate says ageism is a problem in the province and more than half of those surveyed say they have been victims of age disc...

The University of Toronto's first female president says she's optimistic about the next five years, in spite of "looming existential crises" affecting higher education. Melanie Woodin, a neuroscientis...

OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada's top decision makers signalled they likely would have puased the interest rate easing cycle earlier this month if not for the substantial uncertainty around tariffs from t...

TORONTO - New multi-unit buildings across Canada should be required to make their parking spots electric-vehicle ready as a possible way to spur EV uptake, a report released Wednesday suggested. As Ca...

WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order to impose 25 per cent tariffs on all automobile imports to the United States next week but the deep integration of the N...

MANHEIM, Pa. (AP) - Democrat James Andrew Malone narrowly won a special election for a Pennsylvania state Senate seat in Republican-leaning suburbs and farming communities, scoring an upset in a distr...

WASHINGTON - Then-prime minister Justin Trudeau went into his first phone call with a newly re-elected Donald Trump aware that the U.S. president likely was looking to reopen the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Ag...

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and Liberal Leader Mark Carney are shifting their campaigns to Quebec. Poilievre, who held a rally in Hamilton on Tuesday night with thousands in the crow...

HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia legislature has wrapped up a winter sitting that a political scientist says was marked by government moves to increase cabinet's authority and shrink the legislature's abilit...