Tag Archives: Politics

YELLOWKNIFE - Cleanup is underway after a military fuel tanker filled with thousands of litres of diesel overturned on a highway in the Northwest Territories. A spokesperson for Joint Task Force North...

TORONTO - Toronto city council has adopted the mayor's 2026 budget, which includes a modest property tax increase, caps on public transit fares and more money for the police. The budget includes a 2.2...

OTTAWA - The federal government may name the winner of the heated competition to supply the navy with a fleet of new submarines as soon as this year. Stephen Fuhr, secretary of state for defence procu...

QUBEC - Christine Frchette, leadership candidate for the Coalition Avenir Qubec, is promising to revive a popular fast-track immigration program that her government had recently ended. She says if she...

OTTAWA - Federal Procurement Minister Jol Lightbound is defending the government's latest $1 billion loan to Canada Post but says federal support can't be a "long-term solution" for the Crown corporat...

ATLANTA (AP) - The FBI obtained a search warrant to seize hundreds of boxes of ballots from election offices in Fulton County, Georgia, as part of a criminal investigation into possible "deficiencies ...

VICTORIA - The British Columbia government heads into a legislative session this week with an $11.2 billion deficit, economic uncertainty, and plans to roll back a law on Indigenous rights - and an ex...

OTTAWA - When International Criminal Court judge Kimberly Prost goes on vacation, she needs to phone hotels in advance to explain that she can't pay for a room with a credit card - because she's been ...

OTTAWA - Conservative MP Mike Dawson says he can't "in good conscience" accept the pay raise members of Parliament are supposed to get in April because it's unfair when Canadians are struggling to kee...

CALGARY - An expansion project has been put on hold at a diamond mine in the Far North, a move the Northwest Territories government says underscores the need to reduce its economic reliance on that in...