Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland delivered a federal budget Tuesday that keeps the deficit capped at $40 billion, thanks to higher-than-expected government revenues and new taxes that large...

EDMONTON - Documents released under Alberta Freedom of Information laws confirm the United Conservative Party government was talking with the coal industry about relaxing a policy that protected the R...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba's Advocate for Children and Youth is calling on the province to develop a youth-focused addictions strategy. Sherry Gott says her office is seeing a significant increase in the num...

TORONTO - Ontario hopes to begin building Highway 413 within a year, the province's transportation minister said Tuesday, after reaching an agreement with the federal government. Prabmeet Sarkaria sai...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston is asking the province's residents to pause for a moment of silence at noon on Thursday and Friday to mark the passing of four years since the worst mass shoo...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a petition by MyPillow founder and election denier Mike Lindell to consider his challenge to the legality of the FBI's seizure of his cellphone...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Prosecutors charged the former leader of the Michigan House and his wife with financial crimes Tuesday, alleging they milked political accounts for personal travel, housing and o...

A group of doctors say Canadian cancer screening guidelines set by a national task force are out of date and putting people at risk because their cancers aren't detected early enough. "I'm faced with ...

REDMOND, Wash. (AP) - Microsoft is investing $1.5 billion in a technology firm based in the United Arab Emirates and overseen by the country's powerful national security adviser. Microsoft and the tec...

WINNIPEG - New figures show Manitoba New Democrats raised and spent more money than the Progressive Conservatives in last year's election campaign. Documents filed with Elections Manitoba show the NDP...