Tag Archives: Politics

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Newfoundland and Labrador's Progressive Conservatives called Thursday for the removal of the chair of Memorial University's board of regents after he forwarded an alumna's pro-Pales...

VICTORIA - The B.C. government has warned of increasing fire risk this long weekend as Environment Canada issues heat advisories for several areas in the southern part of the province. A statement fro...

OTTAWA - Liberal MP Anita Vandenbeld fell short of an apology today after instigating a fracas that led two witnesses to storm out of a parliamentary committee hearing. Vandenbeld only says that she d...

OTTAWA - More than a dozen labour leaders are endorsing the NDP candidate in an upcoming federal byelection in Winnipeg Thursday, including the business manager of the Conservative candidate's own uni...

OSHAWA, Ont. - A new hospital in Whitby, Ont., will be built and operational within 10 years, Health Minister Sylvia Jones said Thursday. The province has given Lakeridge Health $12 million in capital...

NEW YORK (AP) - A New York appeals court on Thursday denied Donald Trump's bid to end a gag order in his hush money criminal case, rejecting the Republican president's argument that his May conviction...

HALIFAX - An independent monitor says Nova Scotia's progress over the past year on moving people with disabilities out of institutions is missing milestones called for in a legally binding human right...

OTTAWA - The parliamentary budget officer estimates the Liberals' increase to the capital gains inclusion rate will bring in $17.4 billion in revenue over five years. That's two billion dollars less t...

TORONTO - A coalition of Ontario developers has written to three levels of government to ask for a reduction in taxes on new housing, saying it will pass on those savings dollar for dollar to homebuye...

HALIFAX - The Canadian Coast Guard has named its two new patrol vessels after northern glaciers. During a keel-laying ceremony at the Irving Shipyard in Halifax today, the coast guard announced the fi...