Tag Archives: Politics

TORONTO - Experts say Stephen Lewis awakened the Canadian public's consciousness to the HIV-AIDS pandemic raging in Africa, and they credit him with galvanizing the political will to stop standing idl...

OTTAWA - A report by an expert in extremist financing and money laundering says the Canada Revenue Agency's approach to policing terrorist abuse "proved seriously deficient" in the case of a long-runn...

OTTAWA - Provincial rules around alcohol and the federal government's "Buy Canadian" policy have been flagged in a new report citing several trade irritants between Canada and the U.S. The annual docu...

Prairie farmers say a move by Ottawa to temporarily lift a ban on a rodent poison is a good start to address rampant gopher populations that have decimated crops and injured livestock. "I suspect mayb...

VICTORIA - A First Nations leader said proposed amendments to British Columbia's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act would take a "sledgehammer" to the landmark legislation. Robert Phi...

BEAUPR - Construction on a major wind farm northeast of Quebec City has been officially launched, with an investment of $3 billion. The first two phases of the Des Neiges wind farm - the southern sect...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the University of Pennsylvania to hand over records about Jewish employees on campus to a federal agency as part of an investigation into anti...

EDMONTON - Alberta is aiming to regulate who can slap an Alberta whisky stamp on spirits produced in the province. In tabling the bill Tuesday, it said it may be the first government in Canada to use ...

VANCOUVER - Former senator and Vancouver mayor Larry Campbell says it was a "depressing and traumatic experience" when he began his work as a provincial adviser in the Downtown Eastside last year, but...

EDMONTON - An Alberta bill tabled Tuesday aims to make sweeping changes to teacher conduct and education priority rules, including a new mandate for teachers to discuss all issues in a balanced and ne...