Tag Archives: Politics

GRAND FORKS - British Columbia NDP Leader David Eby says his election promise to cap unfair increases on grocery staples is aimed at multiple major grocers in the province and was not deliberately tar...

VANDALIA, Ohio (AP) - President Donald Trump on Saturday defended data centers that power artificial intelligence projects but have become a contentious campaign issue nationwide, as he took his midte...

ST. JOHN'S - Canada's fisheries minister says France has not issued a new snow crab licence off Newfoundland, despite a surprising promise last month by French President Emmanuel Macron. Joanne Thomps...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Aaron Siever was never a single-party voter. But now, the 41-year-old from southwest Virginia is more frustrated than ever with the two political parties whose chief accomplishment, ...

MONTREAL - Quebec's political parties are making a final push for undecided voters as the provincial election campaign enters its last weekend before Monday's vote. The leaders of the five main partie...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal court in Texas on Friday issued a ruling temporarily blocking the Trump administration from building a border wall and other infrastructure across the state's Big Bend regi...

CALGARY - It's been a relatively quiet decade in Alberta's oilsands, but the federal and provincial governments believe a new West Coast pipeline coupled with policy shifts might help turn up the volu...

MIAMI (AP) - A former Miami congressman and longtime friend of U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison in connection with a secret $50 million lobbying campaign ...

CALGARY - An Alberta Mountie subjected to a major RCMP investigation and surveillance after being suspected of using a police database to help Rwanda was found not guilty Friday of several charges. Co...

OTTAWA - Canada and its fellow industrialized countries in the G7 agreed Friday to release 100 million barrels of oil and fuel products in the coming weeks. The pledge includes the release of "substan...