Tag Archives: Politics

TORONTO - Ontario is raising speed limits on more sections of highways across the province. Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria says the speeds will increase to 110 km/h from 100 km/h on Friday....

OTTAWA - Almost a year after the federal government's Bill C-5 was rushed through Parliament, Ottawa is finally looking to use its new powers to expedite projects deemed to be in the national interest...

HALIFAX - Elections Nova Scotia says Tim Houston's Progressive Conservative party has won a byelection in the newly created riding of Chticamp-Margarees-Pleasant Bay on Cape Breton. The electoral body...

OTTAWA - Canada's goal of boosting trade with countries outside the United States could be thwarted by its new pesticide rules, a senator warns. Bill C-30, an omnibus bill implementing the spring econ...

NEW YORK (AP) - New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's slate of fiery progressives swept establishment-backed Democrats in the state's congressional primaries on Tuesday, ousting two sitting congressmen...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Ben McAdams, a former Utah congressman who has sought to shed his reputation as a moderate, won the Democratic primary Tuesday in a redrawn U.S. House district that Democrats are...

New York (AP) - The Kennedy dynasty won't be returning to Congress next year. Kennedy family scion and political novice Jack Schlossberg lost Tuesday to New York state Assembly Member Micah Lasher, in...

Maryland Democrats chose state Del. Adrian Boafo on Tuesday to advance to November's general election in the race to succeed his retiring former boss, U.S. Rep. Steny Hoyer, opting for a continuation ...

WINNIPEG - A byelection has been scheduled for next month in northern Manitoba to fill the seat of a legislature member who died earlier this year. Premier Wab Kinew says a byelection in The Pas-Kamee...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson won a runoff election on Tuesday, swiftly routing the candidate initially endorsed by President Donald Trump to be the Republican nomi...