Tag Archives: Politics

CALGARY - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she's not sure which recommendations from a controversial COVID-19 report her government will implement. The 269-page report, released publicly without no...

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government has ordered a regional health authority to cut the amount of money its spends on private-agency nurses by 15 per cent by March of next year. Premier Wab Kinew says P...

CALGARY - As the threat of 25 per cent tariffs looms over Canada, Alberta's premier says Ottawa should appoint a "border czar" to work collaboratively with the United States. Danielle Smith told repor...

WINNIPEG - Newly elected Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Grand Chief Kyra Wilson has vowed to offer the same support to First Nations leaders in the province that her predecessor once gave her in 2022. Wi...

Canadian authorities say they've intercepted a human smuggling attempt in Ontario's Niagara region as part of a larger border security effort. The Canada Border Services Agency and the RCMP say they c...

VANCOUVER - The relationship between the U.S. and Canada has "fundamentally changed," regardless of whether U.S. President Donald Trump's promised tariffs on Canadian goods materialize on Saturday, ac...

WASHINGTON (AP) - At the signing of the Laken Riley Act, President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he is directing the opening of a detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to hold up to 30,000 migr...

EDMONTON - The right to hunt a single bighorn sheep, Alberta's official mammal, has netted the province US$400,000 at auction. The Alberta government says it's a record-setting price and hopefully a s...

OTTAWA - A lawyer for Abousfian Abdelrazik accused the federal government of "serial hypocrisies" as closing arguments began on his client's lawsuit over his prolonged detention in Sudan. Lawyer Paul ...

OTTAWA - If the U.S. follows through on President Donald Trump's threat to impose massive tariffs on Canada as early as Saturday, Ottawa could hit back with retaliatory tariffs within hours or days, a...