Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - A Canadian man who says he has been tortured in Syria is asking the Federal Court to order Ottawa to decide whether to help bring him home. The man, known publicly only as SS, is one of sever...

VICTORIA - British Columbia's emergencies minister says she's cautiously optimistic about securing federal funding to prevent future flooding in the Abbotsford region, as she prepares to head to Ottaw...

EDMONTON - Alberta's recently announced effort to add physician shifts to help triage patients in crowded emergency rooms has been delayed. The program was to have started over the weekend. The presid...

CALGARY - Former Alberta premier Jason Kenney says the governing United Conservative Party caucus has "no business" signing a petition to force a vote on the province quitting Canada. Kenney, in an in...

OTTAWA - The office of former foreign affairs minister John Baird said Monday neither he nor the Canadian government were consulted on a 2014 seminar invitation list that included convicted sex offend...

On Sunday, photos appeared online that seemed to show former prime minister Justin Trudeau and his partner Katy Perry on the red carpet at the Grammy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles. The photos are fak...

EDMONTON - A second recall petition to oust a member of Alberta's legislature has failed after falling well short of the required signatures. Derek Keenan, who has been petitioning since November for ...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney is appointing his national security adviser and a former cabinet minister as Ottawa's top envoys to Paris and London - world capitals where his government is pursui...

OTTAWA - As mass protests in Iran raise hopes that the regime in Tehran might soon topple, human rights activists are calling on the RCMP to collect reports on possible major crimes committed there by...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Trump administration plans to deploy nearly $12 billion to create a strategic reserve of rare earth elements, a stockpile that could counter China's ability to use its dominance ...