Tag Archives: Politics

MONTREAL - Quebec "superminister" Pierre Fitzgibbon says he is leaving office because he lost motivation to do the job - and that it was the premier who pushed him out the door months earlier than pla...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Biden administration is preparing to accuse Russia of disinformation campaigns targeting the presidential election. That's according to two people familiar with an upcoming annou...

HALIFAX - As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau digs in his heels and pledges to stay on as Liberal leader despite dwindling public support, some LGBTQ+ activists say he is putting queer and gender diverse...

BOSTON (AP) - Attorney John Deaton won a three-way Republican primary to face off against incumbent U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who ran unopposed in Tuesday's Massachusetts primary. Deaton, a former U...

EDMONTON - Alberta Health Minister Adriana LaGrange says a plan to offload underperforming hospitals from Alberta Health Services to third-party operators is still up for discussion. LaGrange says the...

NEW YORK (AP) - A federal judge on Tuesday swiftly rejected Donald Trump's request to intervene in his New York hush money criminal case, thwarting the former president's latest bid to overturn his fe...

The B.C. Conservatives have recruited three more sitting BC United legislators to run under their banner in the fall provincial election, shaking up the previous Conservative candidate list in a proce...

QUBEC - Businessman-turned-politician Pierre Fitzgibbon, economy minister and a central figure in the right-leaning Coalition Avenir Qubec government, is stepping down. The news upended Quebec politic...

OTTAWA - Budget and staff challenges have left overworked employees exhausted and sapped morale at the federal nerve centre for managing forest fires and other national emergencies, an internal memo r...

OTTAWA - The NDP's supply and confidence deal with the Liberals in Ottawa will get heavy scrutiny when leader Jagmeet Singh meets with his caucus in Montreal next week, with the Liberals' decision las...