Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - The 2026 wildfire season has been manageable so far, largely because of significant amounts of rain across Western Canada, but federal officials cautioned Thursday the summer forecast is hott...

TORONTO - Alex Shved is fighting his Stage 4 cancer on two fronts. Medication he is receiving as part of an early-stage trial is working with his body, he hopes, to attack melanoma that has metastasiz...

Graham Platner said Wednesday that he plans to withdraw from the U.S. Senate race in Maine after facing an allegation of sexual assault, shuttering an insurgent campaign that had withstood months of c...

OTTAWA - A document prepared for the federal artificial intelligence minister to use when pitching international investors on Canada's AI ecosystem identifies a massive proposed increase in Canada's d...

CALGARY - The tech behemoth behind Facebook and Instagram says it plans to make Alberta home to its first artificial intelligence data centre in Canada and its largest outside the United States. Meta ...

EDMONTON - Alberta's new auditor general, Phil Peters, says he expects his investigation into a health-care contracting scandal to be complete by the end of this year. The province's previous auditor ...

TORONTO - Insurance provider Intact Financial Corp. says it had higher catastrophe losses and large losses in the second quarter than it initially expected. Intact Financial reported that its combined...

ST. JOHN'S - The Newfoundland and Labrador government says Labrador residents flying within or out of the region can get up to four return tickets subsidized. Residents along the tip of Newfoundland's...

FREDERICTON - The New Brunswick government is dismissing concerns it treated a municipality unfairly when it chose a First Nation to operate the beach at a provincial park. Tourism Minister Isabelle T...

ANKARA - Prime Minister Mark Carney defended the appointment of his principal secretary Tom Pitfield to the Senate, saying that having people with different areas of expertise is important for the ins...