Tag Archives: Politics

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - Democratic Rep. Jared Golden came out ahead in the congressional race through Maine's ranked choice system, election officials said Friday. If the results stand it would be the ...

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith plans to attend the Canadian Embassy's inauguration party in Washington, D.C., where she is to remotely watch the swearing-in of U.S. president-elect Donald T...

VANCOUVER - A group of teachers says British Columbia's Human Rights Tribunal has agreed to expedite a complaint of antisemitism against their union as more allegations surface. Vancouver labour lawye...

FREDERICTON - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today announced the appointment of a former journalist and women's rights advocate as the next lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick. Louise Imbeault was a r...

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick's new Liberal finance minister is projecting a deficit of $92.1 million for the current fiscal year, a reversal from the $40.9-million surplus budgeted last spring by the p...

Top officials in both Canada and the United States are pushing for the need to finalize the updated Columbia River Treaty to manage water flowing between the two countries before the administration ch...

OTTAWA - The federal government has referred three more cases of fraudulent overbilling in its procurement system to the RCMP. In July, a former federal consultant was charged with fraud for overbilli...

MONTREAL - Amid heavy criticism across party lines, an opposition member of the provincial legislature did not back down Friday from comments that his fellow lawmakers say painted them as racist. Haro...

EDMONTON - Canada's Employment Minister Randy Boissonnault is apologizing after shifting claims of his Indigenous identity came under scrutiny. The Edmonton Liberal member of Parliament says he's sorr...

OTTAWA - Canada's parliamentary budget officer says the federal government is overestimating the impact its new immigration plan will have on the country's housing shortage. In October the Liberal gov...