Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - Canada's Disaster Financial Assistance Arrangements program, or DFAA, was launched in 1970, setting a formula for how provinces and territories would split costs with the federal government w...

VICTORIA - British Columbia is looking to put the brakes on crashes into highway overpasses by imposing the highest fines and penalties in Canada. Penalties for crashes into overpasses or other highwa...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Two top Kansas Republican Party officials are facing internal calls to resign over a viral online video showing people at a fundraiser kicking and beating a mannequin wearing a mas...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden courted the support of the powerful International Brotherhood of Teamsters on Tuesday, reminding its leaders and members of his record on unions as Republican cha...

EDMONTON - More than 5,000 Edmonton civic workers appear poised to strike Thursday after an unsuccessful meeting Tuesday between the head of the union and the city's mayor. Lanny Chudyk, president of ...

SURREY, B.C. - Protesters calling on city councillors in Surrey, B.C., to ask for a ceasefire in Gaza have instead triggered a series of security changes that include the temporary end of all in-perso...

REGINA - The Saskatchewan government is bringing in stricter laws around bear spray following a rash of disturbances over the past year at public pools, shopping malls and midways. Justice Minister Br...

HALIFAX - Ottawa's decision to close the lucrative elver fishery on rivers in the Maritimes won't prevent illegal fishing of the baby eels, a commercial licence holder in Nova Scotia said Tuesday. Sta...

OTTAWA - The federal government estimates it will need to pay almost $3.4 billion for its share of the disaster recovery bills for flooding and landslides that devastated British Columbia's Fraser Val...

ATLANTA (AP) - A year ago, Georgia lawmakers said they were striking a balance when they banned most gender-affirming surgeries and hormone replacement therapies for transgender people under 18, but l...