Tag Archives: Politics

CALGARY - Alberta's Premier Danielle Smith says her government will bring in legislation later this year to crack down on illegal garbage dumping. Smith says there's a growing trend of people in the p...

ST. JOHN'S - Canada's fisheries minister urged France on Wednesday to abandon a plan to launch a snow crab fishery in waters near Newfoundland and the French territory of St-Pierre-Miquelon. Joanne Th...

TORONTO - Ontario ministers defended keeping secret the province's payout to Elon Musk's SpaceX over a cancelled Starlink contract, as critics accused the government of obfuscation during the recent r...

Ontario has completed its latest push to raise speed limits on provincial highways. The government raised speed limits from 100 kilometres per hour to 110 kilometres per hour on nine sections of highw...

EDMONTON - Alberta's government is extending the application deadline for its $100 affordability rebate by one month. Eligible residents will have until Oct. 31 to apply online for the fuel tax paymen...

EDMONTON - Prime Minister Mark Carney came home to Alberta's capital Wednesday to meet with First Nations leaders and families and honour the children who suffered and endured in Canada's residential ...

BRANDON - Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew stood on the former site of the Brandon residential school Wednesday as he talked about the importance of keeping the stories of students alive. On a grassy hill d...

OTTAWA - Ontario Conservative MP Scott Aitchison announced Wednesday he will resign his seat of Parry Sound-Muskoka at the end of the fall parliamentary sitting. In a letter released to constituents, ...

CAMPOBELLO ISLAND - A truck carrying supplies for an isolated New Brunswick island linked to the rest of Canada by U.S. roads was turned back at the international border Tuesday, says the local member...

OTTAWA - International Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu is expected to speak with U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer during the G20 trade ministers' meeting in Wisconsin this week. Sidhu's spokespe...