Tag Archives: Politics

FREDERICTON - Provincial leaders across Canada are taking turns criticizing the federal Liberal government's proposal to alleviate immigration pressure on Quebec and Ontario by resettling asylum seeke...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - A state judge struck down North Dakota's ban on abortion Thursday, saying that the state constitution creates a fundamental right to access abortion before a fetus is viable. In ...

OTTAWA - Canada's consul general in New York told members of a House of Commons committee on Thursday that he had nothing to do with the purchase of the country's new official residence in New York Ci...

QUBEC - Quebec wants to curb excessive tipping as part of new legislation the government says will help people save money. Simon Jolin-Barrette, minister responsible for consumer protection, tabled a ...

MONTREAL - NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh won't say whether he would keep the consumer carbon price if his party forms government after the next election. Speaking to reporters in Montreal on Thursday, Sing...

QUBEC - Quebec legislature member Youri Chassin announced Thursday he's leaving the Coalition Avenir Qubec to sit as an Independent, becoming the second member of government to quit in a little more t...

WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. wholesale price increases mostly slowed last month, the latest evidence that inflation pressures are cooling enough for the Federal Reserve to begin cutting interest rates next ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. wholesale price increases mostly slowed last month, the latest evidence that inflation pressures are cooling enough for the Federal Reserve to begin cutting interest rates next ...

TORONTO - More workers at the Ontario Science Centre are set to lose their jobs as the abruptly shuttered east-Toronto attraction contemplates a move to a temporary home, potentially in a neighbouring...

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she's committed to Calgary's multibillion-dollar Green Line light-rail transit project, but as it was originally envisioned. Speaking to reporters on Wed...