Tag Archives: Politics

HALIFAX - Some Halifax-area landlords on Monday defended their use of fixed-term leases as necessary to recoup costs under Nova Scotia's rent cap, despite criticism the leases help property owners ski...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba's governing New Democrats ousted backbencher and defence lawyer Mark Wasyliw from caucus Monday, and Wasyliw fired back by accusing Premier Wab Kinew of being a micromanaging, toxi...

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick's finance minister says the province recorded a surplus of $500.8 million for the fiscal year that ended in March. Ernie Steeves says the amount - more than 10 times higher...

For the first time in their history, members of the Cree community of Nemaska received a visit from a sitting Quebec premier on Sunday and were able to share first-hand the story of how they were disp...

MONTREAL - Experts say factors including public opinion and politics helped push Air Canada toward a deal that secured major wage gains for pilots. Yesterday, the country's biggest airline and the uni...

EDMONTON - Alberta's energy minister is promising strong action by next fall to clean up the province's growing backlog of unreclaimed oil and gas sites. "There are many oil wells to reclaim and the c...

OTTAWA - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland says the government is making some changes to mortgage rules to help more Canadians to purchase their first home. She says the changes will come into force ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Monday marks 50 days until the 2024 presidential election in a campaign that was already among the most turbulent in American history even before Donald Trump faced an apparent assassi...

VANCOUVER - The president of the Union of B.C. Municipalities says communities have billions of dollars worth of infrastructure that will need replacing in the next decade and the province needs to st...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has suffered another devastating byelection blow with the loss of a second Liberal stronghold, this one to the Bloc Qubcois in LaSalle-mard-Verdun. Voters went to the pol...