Tag Archives: Politics

VANCOUVER - A re-elected NDP government would scrap British Columbia's long-standing carbon tax and shift the burden to "big polluters" if the federal government dropped its requirement for the law, P...

EDMONTON - Premier Danielle Smith says if Ottawa comes back this fall with a lowball estimate on Alberta's share of the Canada Pension Plan, hard questions will have to be asked on next steps. "When w...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department is preparing criminal charges in connection with an Iranian hack that targeted Donald Trump's presidential campaign, two people familiar with the matter said T...

OTTAWA - An Italian art collector who bought a portrait of Winston Churchill says he was surprised to learn five months later the answer to a puzzling, high-profile heist might be hanging on his livin...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia has become the first province in Canada to sign a pharmacare agreement with the federal government that would help the province fund hormone replacement therapy and diabet...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's opposition parties say they can't understand why the government insists the province doesn't need an enforcement unit to help settle disputes between landlords and tenants. The...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - People began betting on which political party would win control of Congress in the November elections within minutes of a judge's ruling Thursday allowing the bets - the onl...

Two Saskatchewan political parties have decided against merging to form a coalition ahead of the fall election. The Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan and the Buffalo Party held talks abou...

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service has recently faced a series of revelations about allegations of workplace harassment and assault. Here is a timeline about the situation. July 2019: A B.C.-b...

VANCOUVER - When Canada's spy chief wrote a secret letter to the public safety minister last December - the week after a report emerged that two young women in the service had been sexually assaulted ...