Tag Archives: Politics

TROIS-RIVIRES - Quebec Premier Christine Frchette has confirmed she is switching ridings and will run to represent her hometown of Trois-Rivires, Que., in the fall general election. Frchette told a ga...

OTTAWA - Canada will host the 2028 global summit of the Francophonie in the Ottawa area, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Wednesday. "We have decided to bring the world to Canada to celebrate the ...

CALGARY - The mayor of Alberta's largest city says he wants to hold an anti-separation advocacy campaign as the province nears a referendum on quitting the country but that provincial rules prevent th...

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced Thursday that her government has a route - and builders - for a new pipeline to the B.C. coast, just hours after Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a deal wi...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney's vision of middle powers working with less traditional partners outside the superpower club is already taking shape at the United Nations, says Canada's ambassador...

Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew has urged caution as flooding in northwestern parts of his province prompts some local states of emergency and evacuation orders. Kinew said those in the Parkland region, wh...

CALGARY - Alberta's separation from the rest of the country was top of mind for Maple Leaf adorned Albertans in the province's largest city as they celebrated the birth of Confederation. With a headba...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney urged Canadians to remain united in a Canada Day speech in the nation's capital on Wednesday, but his plan to deliver similar remarks in Edmonton later in the day w...

EDMONTON - Heavy traffic on a website for Albertans to apply for $100 from the provincial government has clogged the site on the day it opened. In an email Wednesday, Alberta's technology and innovati...

WASHINGTON - The United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer says the U.S. is not renewing the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement "in its current form" - but the trade agreement will remain in place a...