Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - Canadian AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio and the heads of two major American AI companies pleaded with the United Nations on Wednesday to set controls on the burgeoning technology. Bengio told the U...

FREDERICTON - The New Brunswick premier is facing pressure from some small businesses in her province to back away from a proposal to cut off Americans who cross the border to hunt and fish. Susan Hol...

HALIFAX - It was inappropriate for Nova Scotia's justice minister to file a complaint with the province's barristers' society regarding questions asked in the legislature by his predecessor, says a po...

OTTAWA - U.S. President Donald Trump took aim at Canada again Wednesday, this time to claim that Canada is "destroying itself" by allowing millions of people into the country "essentially unchecked an...

OTTAWA - Federal government departments and agencies are set to spend more than $18 million to get their employees to work in the office more often. Thousands of federal public servants started a new ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - About half of rural American voters believe the economy is worse off now than when President Donald Trump returned to office, according to a new survey that points to economic frustr...

The British Columbia Conservatives moved Wednesday to head off suggestions that interim leader Lorne Doerkson would not remain premier if he wins the Oct. 24 election, as it announced former leader Jo...

MONTREAL - Parti Qubecois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon urged Quebecers not to be afraid of a referendum, as the five main party leaders clashed Wednesday on sovereignty, finances and the cost of li...

OTTAWA - Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu says the Liberals' proposed changes to the Canada Labour Code would bring some much-needed "sunlight" to collective bargaining in federally regulated sectors. Hajdu ...

OTTAWA - Federal Health Minister Marjorie Michel says she's not considering changes to regulations that restrict the sale of nicotine pouches, while tobacco control groups say the government needs to ...