Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - Hundreds of executives and global asset managers are in Toronto this week for Canada's first-ever national investment summit. Prime Minister Mark Carney has set an ambitious goal of attractin...

MONTREAL - A Montreal man has received a conditional sentence of two years less a day for a scheme involving forgery and fraud on dozens of tax returns. The Canada Revenue Agency says Flix Vil pleaded...

OTTAWA - The European Union is planning on more parliamentary exchanges between Canada and the 720 politicians representing its member states. Roberta Metsola, president of the European Parliament, sa...

OTTAWA - European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Wednesday she wants Canada to become the first "associate member" of the European Union, inspiring both curiosity and confusion on two ...

OTTAWA - Canadian border authorities say they have deported 111 people since August last year in efforts to combat extortion violence in South Asian communities. The Canada Border Services Agency says...

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government is offering to waive the provincial sales tax on major capital spending for the Port of Churchill as it tries to attract international investment. Premier Wab Kinew ...

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says the response rate for this year's census of the population was 98.4 per cent, one of the highest ever recorded. The data is collected every five years and the questionn...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney's high-stakes pitch for foreign investment is also attracting protests by Indigenous leaders, environmental groups and union leaders opposed to his agenda. Hundreds...

VICTORIA - The new party formed by British Columbia legislators who have defected from the provincial Conservatives in recent weeks gained a seventh member on Monday, with interim leader Peter Milobar...

MONTREAL - With the Quebec election campaign almost at its halfway point, party leaders made themselves scarce on Monday as they prepared for their first two debates this week. The first debate is sch...