Tag Archives: Politics

National Bank of Canada says it has upped its cost savings targets after acquiring Canadian Western Bank last year as it reported Wednesday that its profit rose last quarter. The Montreal-based bank a...

OTTAWA - A planned visit by China's foreign minister to Canada this week - the first such visit in 10 years - offers a positive sign about the state of the Canada-China relationship, International Tra...

MONTREAL - Canada's main flight attendants union is crying foul on airline submissions to the federal government for its probe into unpaid work in the sector, as questions persist around what constitu...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Alabama on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to allow it to use a congressional map favoring Republicans in this year's elections, despite a lower court's ruling that the redistricti...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Two key senators involved in a long-simmering debate over fixing college sports will introduce a bipartisan bill designed to break a congressional logjam that would regulate payments...

OTTAWA - The federal government is set to introduce its AI strategy within days - a long-awaited policy that has been delayed amid increasing public concern about the social impacts and safety of the ...

TORONTO - Uber's president wants the federal government to act faster on policies and programs that will help Canadian companies build. Andrew Macdonald, who is also the ride-hailing giant's chief ope...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston says he is relinquishing the energy minister role he gave himself as part of his push to turn the province into an energy superpower. The premier announced th...

FREDERICTON - The New Brunswick government says it plans to tell each municipality across the province how much it should raise property taxes every year as it tries to address spiking bills. The gove...

WINNIPEG - Members of the Manitoba legislature sat overnight and into Wednesday afternoon in an ongoing battle over a government budget bill that includes a tax cut on some food. The bill contains sev...