Tag Archives: Politics

MONTREAL - Some 420,000 unionized public sector workers have voted 74.8 per cent in favour of accepting an agreement in principle reached with the Quebec government. The workers, who are part of the "...

CHURCHILL, Man. - The federal and Manitoba governments are putting another $60 million into a railway and a port in the province's north. The money is to be used to finish work on the Hudson Bay Railw...

CHARLOTTETOWN - A village councillor in Prince Edward Island is asking a court to quash sanctions imposed on him after he displayed a sign on his property questioning the existence of unmarked graves ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - A rural Pennsylvania county and its elected officials may have to pay the state elections agency hundreds of thousands of dollars to reimburse it for legal fees and litigation c...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - The Wisconsin Ethics Commission has recommended that state prosecutors file felony charges against a fundraising committee for former President Donald Trump and a Republican state...

QUEBEC - The Quebec bar association on Friday denounced what it calls Premier Franois Legault's "attack" on the independence of federally appointed judges. The Barreau du Qubec's comments follow Legau...

Alberta's energy regulator has accepted initial applications and is to open public hearings for a controversial open-pit coal mine on the eastern slopes of the province's southern Rocky Mountains that...

OTTAWA - Canada sanctioned 10 more Russian officials and businessmen and 153 entities Friday, with Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine set to pass the second-year mark this weekend. Foreign Affair...

MONTREAL - McGill University and Concordia University are suing the Quebec government over its decision to hike tuition for out-of-province students by about 30 per cent, claiming the increases violat...

OTTAWA - The federal government posted a budgetary deficit of $23.6 billion for the first nine months of its 2023-24 fiscal year. The result compared with a deficit of $5.5 billion for the same stretc...