Tag Archives: Politics

Falling down stairs, pushing stuck cars out of snow banks and cancelling events are just some of the challenges candidates have faced on the winter campaign trail, but Sol Mamakwa may have them all be...

TORONTO - Thursday is election day in Ontario, and while the polls have consistently had the Progressive Conservatives cruising to re-election, there are various ridings across the province in which t...

A report from a First Nation says the massive Chilcotin River landslide in the B.C. Interior last year revealed shortfalls in communication and co-ordination of the emergency response from provincial ...

VANCOUVER - The Musqueam Indian Band has signed an agreement with the federal government to share ground lease revenue from the Vancouver International Airport. The specifics of the agreement are bein...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's premier says he is withdrawing amendments to a bill that would have allowed his government to fire the province's auditor general without cause and veto the public release of h...

CALGARY - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her government plans to spend $180 million to build two involuntary drug addiction treatment centres. Smith says the new facilities coincide with her gove...

MONTREAL - Indigenous people risk being pushed aside as Canada looks to defend itself against a possible trade war with the United States, says an outgoing regional chief of the Assembly of First Nati...

OTTAWA - Jagmeet Singh says he's "absolutely" the right person to lead the New Democrats into the next election despite the party's drop in the polls. A recent Leger poll puts the NDP at just 14 per c...

OTTAWA - The world marked the third anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Monday. Here are some quotes: "Despite the immense pain and devastation that they have endured, the Ukrain...

A running list of election promises announced by the Ontario Progressive Conservatives, NDP, Liberals and Greens in the province's snap election campaign. The vote is set for Feb. 27. Progressive Cons...