Tag Archives: Politics

TORONTO - The $5-billion announced for an Indigenous loan guarantee program in last week's budget is just a start, said Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland. "Nothing would make me happier than see...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia's government has set Nov. 29 as the date when the Surrey Police Service will take over from the RCMP as the city's force of jurisdiction. Solicitor General Mike Farnworth ...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) - The man charged with starting a fire outside independent U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders' Vermont office earlier this month pleaded not guilty to a federal charge on Tuesday. Shant Mic...

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government is planning to end its ban on homegrown recreational cannabis - a move that would leave Quebec as the only province with such a restriction. "We're just allowing Man...

VANCOUVER - B.C.'s ombudsperson says the Ministry of Children and Family Development should be embarrassed by its neglect toward its commitment to reduce the practice of isolating youth in custody. Ja...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) - Democrat Sharon Tucker was sworn in Tuesday as the new mayor of Indiana's second-most populous city, nearly a month after her predecessor's death. Tucker, who had been a Fort W...

OTTAWA - An innocent man could have spent years in jail had a judge not granted him bail, a civil liberties advocate said Monday, as lawyers warned that Umar Zameer's case underscores the risks of pol...

Gary Vidal, who represents the Saskatchewan riding of Desneth-Missinippi-Churchill River in the House of Commons, says he won't seek re-election next year. Vidal said the changing geography of the nor...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - As transgender people in Louisiana watched surrounding states in the deeply conservative South implement a slew of laws targeting nearly every facet of their lives in recent ye...

VICTORIA - British Columbia has placed its proposed online harms legislation on hold after reaching an agreement with social media companies to "sit down in good faith" to find solutions on keeping pe...