Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - Health care advocates say they're worried the Liberal government will backtrack on its promise to create a universal, single-payer pharmacare program. Frdrique Chabot, executive director of A...

DELTA - Liquor and cannabis warehouses in British Columbia are now behind picket lines as public sector workers step up job action to try to pressure the government back to the bargaining table. The B...

OTTAWA - Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree suggested recently that an acquaintance shouldn't worry about being arrested for refusing to turn in a banned firearm because municipal police have ...

OTTAWA - NDP immigration critic Jenny Kwan said Monday the government needs to do more to get people out of Gaza who applied for temporary visas through an extended family reunification program. The p...

OTTAWA - Ottawa is asking the Federal Court to overturn a Canadian Human Rights Tribunal order directing it to work with First Nations to reform the child welfare system, and for a new panel to be str...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Tech giant Oracle will receive a copy of TikTok's algorithm to operate for U.S. users, according to a senior official in President Donald Trump's administration on Monday. Determinin...

HALIFAX - With revenues down and spending up due to a slowing economy, Nova Scotia is forecasting a record deficit of $1.2 billion for the current fiscal year. The figure released Monday by Finance Mi...

OTTAWA - Canada's international ranking on gender parity in politics has plummeted over the past 25 years, and advocates say Canada must do better. "What we want to see are concrete actions, not vague...

TORONTO - The Ontario member of provincial parliament for Sault Ste. Marie is facing domestic violence charges of assault and assault with a weapon, prompting him to be removed Monday from the Progres...

Ontario is asking Ottawa for a series of specific measures to tighten bail and sentencing rules, as the federal government gets closer to tabling legislation to reform those aspects of the justice sys...