Tag Archives: Politics

EDMONTON - Alberta has a new minister of infrastructure. Martin Long has been appointed to the cabinet post after the previous minister resigned earlier this week. Long, the member for West Yellowhead...

EDMONTON - Hundreds of striking school support workers marched through the streets of downtown Edmonton to the Alberta legislature on budget day and stood outside, waving signs, blowing horns and dema...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A federal judge in San Francisco on Thursday found that the mass firings of probationary employees were likely unlawful, granting temporary relief to a coalition of labor unions a...

VICTORIA - British Columbia's Solicitor General is accusing the B.C. Conservative Party of involvement in removing a man from a mental-health facility against the wishes of his family as the Oppositio...

British Columbia is set to require Canadian products to fulfil renewable fuel standards for gasoline and diesel, a move Energy Minister Adrian Dix said was aimed at building a "cleaner, stronger and m...

VICTORIA - British Columbia's ombudsperson says the lack of government progress on compensating Doukhobors who were wrongfully detained in the 1950s is "disheartening." A statement from Jay Chalke say...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston has agreed to resume taking part in media scrums in the legislature after facing accusations he was curtailing press freedom. Two weeks ago, Houston ended the...

WINNIPEG - The Canadian Museum for Human Rights has removed singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie from an exhibit because of questions about her First Nations identity. The musician and activist was am...

MONTREAL - Montreal-area mayors are denouncing the Quebec government's decision to force a suburb north of the city to cede a piece of land for the expansion of a hazardous waste disposal site. Quebec...

QUBEC - A long-serving minister in Quebec's Coalition Avenir Qubec government has resigned amid a scandal over at least half a billion dollars in cost overruns related to the auto insurance board's on...