Tag Archives: Politics

The presidential primary contests may be over, but there are plenty of consequential downballot elections still to come. Voters across the country will vote on next Tuesday night on combatting homeles...

Taxes may well be a certainty of life, but they can morph and multiply by the year, including some big changes this filing season. Here are the new rules you should know about: Deducting home office e...

OTTAWA - The federal Liberals ordered a national security review of popular video app TikTok in September 2023 but did not disclose it publicly. "This is still an ongoing case. We can't comment furthe...

OTTAWA - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland has pledged that the government will meet its fiscal targets in the upcoming federal budget, but economists say achieving that goal will be challenging as t...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden came out in opposition to the planned sale of U.S. Steel to Nippon Steel of Japan, saying on Thursday that the U.S. needs to "maintain strong American steel compa...

NEW YORK (AP) - Bannings and attempted bannings of books soared again in the U.S. last year, continuing to set record highs, according to a new report from the American Library Association. On Thursda...

EDMONTON - Library workers are now part of a tentative deal that has averted a strike by thousands Edmonton civic workers. Civic Service Union 52 made the announcement Thursday night on X, formerly kn...

Two Alberta First Nations have asked the federal government to examine whether a component of oilsands tailings pond water known to harm fish and other animals should be classed as toxic. The move cou...

SAGINAW, Mich. (AP) - Hurley Coleman Jr.'s parents were drawn to Michigan from the South by the promise of middle-class jobs in the booming automotive industry, an origin story shared by many African ...

WILSON, Okla. (AP) - Before Oklahoma became one of the last places in the U.S. to outlaw cockfighting in 2002, it wasn't uncommon to see hundreds of spectators packed into small arenas in rural parts ...