Tag Archives: Politics

MONTREAL - Montreal's police chief will meet with city officials behind closed doors over racism allegations involving officers in the city's Montral-Nord borough. A spokesperson for the City of Montr...

OTTAWA - The Philippines is forging closer defence ties with Canada as both countries attempt to limit Beijing's territorial claims in the South China Sea and confront concerns about supply chains and...

OTTAWA - Canada and Australia have agreed on terms to allow Ottawa to buy components of the Arctic over-the-horizon radar system from BAE Systems Australia. Stephen Fuhr, Canada's secretary of state f...

EDMONTON - A survey of spending over the last fiscal year by Alberta's provincial politicians indicates taxpayers are footing the bill on everything from bison steak dinners to a pack of gum. And a ca...

EDMONTON - Hobbled by more than just low oil prices, Alberta's NDP finance minister limped into the legislature in a cast to deliver a devastating budget. It was 2017, and Joe Ceci had injured his leg...

OTTAWA - From a massive ad blitz featuring Canadian broadcast icon Peter Mansbridge to a cabinet minister calling on shipbuilders to cough up a car plant, the brief race to replace Canada's aging subm...

CALGARY - Ten years ago this week, the United Kingdom voted to quit the European Union, setting off years of political turmoil and economic pain that persist to this day. Richard Barfield was working ...

VICTORIA - Muslim groups and Culture Minister Marc Miller are decrying an alleged attack on an imam of a mosque in Victoria on Thursday night. Miller said in a tweet that the reported assault is "appa...

MONTRAL - Quebec Domestic Security Minister Ian Lafrenire has appointed an independent observer to oversee the investigations into racism allegations involving Montreal police officers, over a week af...

OTTAWA - Information commissioner Caroline Maynard says a federal proposal to narrow the scope of the Access to Information Act is a move in the wrong direction that could exclude "entire swaths of go...