Tag Archives: Politics

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Arkansas election officials on Wednesday rejected petitions submitted for an abortion-rights ballot measure that organizers hoped to put before voters this fall in a predomina...

HALIFAX - Halifax has approved nine new sites to be used as tenting locations for people experiencing homelessness as the city grapples with a housing crisis and a growing number of unhoused people. B...

The University of Ottawa says pro-Palestinian protesters have dismantled an encampment that had been on campus for two months. University president Jacques Frmont said the encampment site is currently...

MONTREAL - A small Quebec community has been locked in a drawn-out battle for the last two years with a local family that accuses it of being "the most racist city in the world." Last month, a Quebec ...

OTTAWA - Canadian security officials are warning about a Russian propaganda campaign that used social-media site X to spread online disinformation. The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security said individu...

OTTAWA - A group of agencies that certify Kosher meat took the government to court Wednesday to ask for an injunction against Canadian Food Inspection Agency guidelines for the ritual slaughter of ani...

EDMONTON - The provincial government's management of Alberta's increasingly stressed water resources is all wet, says the province's auditor general. A highly critical report from the auditor released...

OTTAWA - The administrative wing of the Prime Minister's Office says it has new procedures for vetting federal appointees following concerns it failed to search online posts made by the incoming head ...

TORONTO - Trying to repair the Ontario Science Centre building would be "foolish," Premier Doug Ford said Wednesday in response to calls to reverse his abrupt closure of the attraction. The government...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Movie star and lifelong Democrat George Clooney added his voice to calls for Joe Biden to leave the presidential race on Wednesday. Clooney said in a New York Times opinion piece tha...