Tag Archives: Politics

TORONTO - Canada's premiers are calling on the federal government to extend the deadline for claiming charitable donations on tax returns through to the end of February. Ontario Premier Doug Ford made...

OTTAWA - Immigration measures announced as part of Canada's border response to president-elect Donald Trump's 25 per cent tariff threat are starting to be implemented, beginning with a ban on what's k...

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government is set to receive $337 million more in equalization payments from the federal government in the next fiscal year. The total of more than $4.6 billion is a 7.7 per ce...

HONG KONG (AP) - Hong Kong police on Tuesday announced a fresh round of arrest warrants for six activists based overseas, with bounties set at $1 million Hong Kong dollars for information leading to t...

OTTAWA - Canada appears to be barrelling toward a spring election now that the NDP is vowing to vote down the government early next year - whether Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stays on or not. Politi...

OTTAWA - U.S. president-elect Donald Trump and those in his corner continue to muse about annexing Canada, though Canadian officials have largely sidestepped those comments. In a post on the social me...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew's popularity shows little sign of waning more than a year after he led the provincial New Democrats to power. But there are some tough choices ahead as he tries t...

MONTREAL - Immigrants are increasingly choosing to stay in Quebec, according to a new report from Statistics Canada, but the same isn't true in the Atlantic region, which continues to lose newcomers t...

TORONTO - Ontario's little-known team of taxpayer-funded animal cruelty investigators recently issued its first-ever news release, years after launching in 2020. The small but meaningful step toward i...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Former President Bill Clinton was admitted Monday to Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington after developing a fever. The 78-year-old was admitted in the "afternoon for t...