Tag Archives: Politics

HALIFAX - Promises to build 30,000 affordable rental homes, make Halifax ferries free and temporarily remove the provincial tax on gasoline were centrepieces of the Nova Scotia NDP election platform r...

Dozens of researchers across Canada, including renowned environmentalist David Suzuki, have joined a growing chorus of voices urging the federal government to halt the importation of an endangered mon...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Republicans have elected South Dakota Sen. John Thune as the next Senate majority leader, completing a momentous shift in their leadership that elevates a top deputy of Mitch McConne...

The head of flight simulator maker CAE Inc. is closely watching events in the U.S. after last week's election, but said he isn't immediately worried that the incoming president will shake things up to...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew shuffled his cabinet Wednesday, adding three new faces and sharpening the focus on the province's growing tech sector. Kinew introduced the Department of Innovati...

Three unions are now challenging the federal government's recent decisions to intervene in major labour disputes, saying it's undermining workers' rights. The union representing locked-out dock worker...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Donald Trump made a victor's return to Washington on Wednesday, visiting the White House for a nearly two-hour meeting with President Joe Biden and committing to a straightforward tr...

When Niigaan Sinclair pitched his collection of articles to a Toronto publisher, he was told "Wnipk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre" was a "regional book." The Winnipeg-based Anishinaabe ...

WASHINGTON - Donald Trump's second administration is filling up with some of his most loyal supporters and many of the people landing top jobs have been critical of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and s...

CALGARY - Margaret Atwood has been called prescient - particularly when it comes to her famous 1985 dystopia "The Handmaid's Tale" and the recent rollback of reproductive rights in the United States -...