Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Mlanie Joly says it's time for a woman to lead the United Nations, a call echoed by 14 other female foreign ministers Friday. "Within the UN system, it is time for th...

TORONTO - Experts are raising questions about the need for the federal government's planned cap on international graduate students, and suggesting it may prompt some top talent to look elsewhere. Stud...

Nearly two months after announcing an independent, external review into the Paris Olympics drone spying scandal, Canada Soccer - like everyone else - is waiting on its findings. Canada women's coach B...

FREDERICTON - As New Brunswick Progressive Conservative Leader Blaine Higgs started his campaign for re-election this week, a national survey was released Thursday showing he had the lowest approval r...

British Columbians are voting in the next provincial election on Oct. 19. The NDP is hoping to hold on to power, while those on the right are running in a new political landscape after the former Oppo...

OTTAWA - MPs on the public safety and national security committee voted unanimously to launch an investigation into an alleged Russian ploy to dupe right-wing influencers into sowing division among Am...

WINNIPEG - Law groups across Canada are denouncing the Manitoba NDP's ouster of a backbencher over his ties to the lawyer representing convicted sex offender Peter Nygard, while more caucus members ar...

MONTREAL - Quebec's public services are becoming "dehumanized," the province's ombudsperson said in his annual report released Thursday, adding that a growing number of people are reaching out to his ...

OTTAWA - NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says he will join the Bloc Qubcois in blocking a non-confidence motion next week when the Conservatives attempt to topple the the government. The planned votes from t...

PORT ALBERNI, B.C. - Getting a bed at one of British Columbia's drug detoxification facilities is like winning the lottery, the vice-president on the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council says. Les Doiron tol...