Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - A new watchdog report says there are fundamental issues with the use of polygraphs for security screening by Canada's cyberspy agency. It calls for the Communications Security Establishment a...

RED DEER, Alta. - Alberta municipal leaders are calling for the provincial government to reverse its ban on vote counting machines, saying it's more costly and time-consuming to count by hand. However...

WASHINGTON (AP) - With American support for Ukraine at a partisan crossroads, Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday slammed suggestions that Kyiv should cede territory for the sake of peace with Mo...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba's NDP government is more than halfway toward its goal of hiring 1,000 health-care workers since taking office nearly a year ago, with some groups representing health-care staff app...

TORONTO - Fewer Ontario students in grades 3 and 6 are meeting the provincial standard in reading and writing compared to last year, while math scores are steady or slightly improving - though still l...

HALIFAX - An offer of additional financial aid to Nova Scotia's wine industry is still on the table despite being rejected by grape growers earlier this week, say provincial officials. During a briefi...

PICTOU, N.S. - The mayor of a Nova Scotia town says recent disruptions to the ferry service that links the province with eastern Prince Edward Island are posing a real challenge for the town's tourism...

Louisiana prosecutors on Thursday dismissed the most serious remaining charge in the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene, dropping a negligent homicide count against a veteran trooper seen on body-cam...

A southern Alberta First Nation says it will fight a government decision on a dam that it says broke promises to take its concerns into account. "The Siksika Nation will strenuously oppose this projec...

OTTAWA - An NDP MP has introduced a bill that would criminalize residential school denialism, saying it would help stop harm caused toward survivors, their families and communities. If the bill is pas...