Tag Archives: Politics

VANCOUVER AND TORONTO - Canada's Competition Bureau has launched investigations into the parent companies of grocery chains Loblaws and Sobeys for alleged anticompetitive conduct, court documents reve...

HALIFAX - The remains of an unknown Newfoundland soldier who died in France during the First World War are expected to arrive Saturday in St. John's, N.L., where preparations are being made for a sole...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Idaho Democrats on Thursday selected Joe Biden as their their nominee for the White House, giving the president more delegates after he already clinched his party's 2024 nomination...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba's main political parties have now all lined up candidates for a byelection set for June 18 in the Tuxedo constituency in Winnipeg. The seat has been vacant since former premier Hea...

EDMONTON - The Alberta government is clawing back parts of a bill that would have given Premier Danielle Smith and her cabinet the power to unilaterally fire mayors and councillors. But a spokesperson...

OTTAWA - Health Minister Mark Holland says the government is open to adding more medications to the list of drugs covered by its proposed pharmacare program. Holland made the comments at a parliamenta...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Ohio's Republican Gov. Mike DeWine said Thursday that he is calling a rare special session of the General Assembly next week to pass legislation ensuring that President Joe Biden...

RICHMOND, B.C. - Retailer London Drugs says cybercriminals who stole files from its corporate head office last month have released some of the data after it refused to pay a ransom. The Richmond, B.C....

OTTAWA - A bipartisan group of U.S. senators has written a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, urging him to meet the NATO spending target Canada first agreed to in 2014. All NATO allies renewed ...

WINNIPEG - Some Manitoba landlords may have a harder time raising rents above inflation and could be ordered to phase-in increases over years if a bill introduced Thursday by the Manitoba government b...