Tag Archives: Politics

WINNIPEG - First Nations leaders are renewing their push for an all-season road on the east side of Lake Winnipeg that would connect several remote communities to goods, services and health care in th...

VICTORIA - British Columbia's Mental Health and Addictions Minister Jennifer Whiteside says ending the province's three-year drug decriminalization project won't save "a single life," as the experimen...

STRATFORD, ONTARIO - Ontario is extending a program that helps long-term care homes provide clinical placements for nursing and personal support worker students. The government says the program has al...

OTTAWA - Canadian farmers may have to wait months to find out if they'll owe thousands of dollars for carbon pricing this year, as a bill that would give them a new exemption remains mired in politica...

PORT HAWKESBURY, N.S. - Nova Scotia provincial court Judge Paul Scovil makes 25 recommendations in his final report following a public inquiry into why Lionel Desmond, a former soldier, killed three f...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson remained the top fundraiser in the GOP primary campaign for North Carolina governor entering 2024, but a recent rival has used his own personal f...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Democrats are appealing a judge's dismissal of their lawsuit as they once again seek to allow Wisconsin voters to return absentee ballots in drop boxes, bringing the challenge one...

REGINA - A member of the Saskatchewan legislature has been charged with assault by choking. Greg Lawrence faces two counts under the Criminal Code and is to make his first appearance in provincial cou...

OTTAWA - The Conservative Party of Canada raised more than $35 million during Pierre Poilievre's first full year as leader - and the federal Liberals brought in less than half that amount. The party s...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government is "actively engaged" after a Palestinian Canadian was reported missing in the Gaza Strip. Mansour Shouman was in the region to help document...