Tag Archives: Politics

HALIFAX - Campaign promises to fund mental health care, reinstate public school boards and give tax breaks for dog adoptions are among the pledges that, nearly three years into his mandate, Nova Scoti...

OTTAWA - Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister Mlanie Joly and her G7 counterparts have issued a joint statement calling for a de-escalation of tensions in the Middle East. The foreign ministers of Canada...

MONTREAL - A spokesperson for Transport Minister Pablo Rodriguez says he is fielding "a lot of requests" to join the race to lead the Quebec Liberal Party. But Rodriguez, the Quebec lieutenant for Pri...

OTTAWA - In a bid to import what some might call American-style politics, the Liberals are labelling federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre "weird" with a new line of attack borrowed from the Un...

For a country with such a severe shortage of housing, the way Canada builds homes hasn't changed that much since the country was founded. Workers arrive on site with building materials they assemble p...

HALIFAX - Funeral directors across the country are warning grieving families about a trend of third-party websites republishing obituaries for profit. Jim Bishop, the funeral director for Bishop's Fun...

TORONTO - Around 300 people gathered in downtown Toronto outside the Ontario legislature today to protest the results of the disputed Venezuelan election and to demand a stronger response from Ottawa....

WINNIPEG - The Conservative candidate in an upcoming federal byelection in Winnipeg has received an endorsement from the international vice-president of a major union in his bid to unseat the NDP in t...

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - B.C.'s Emergency Management Minister Bowinn Ma says the best-case scenario for a landslide blocking the Chilcotin River is a gentle clearing that doesn't take debris down the riv...

OTTAWA - The mother of a witness who stormed out of a House of Commons committee in tears berated Liberal, NDP and Conservative members for a "disgusting" partisan display in a letter Friday that she ...