Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - Judges must have the legal right to issue non-binding judgments in cases where governments override sections of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, a lawyer for the attorney general of Canada...

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government's plan to eliminate the provincial sales tax on all food sold in grocery stores was questioned Wednesday by restaurant owners who argue they're being put at a disadv...

HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia legislature has been closed to the public after singing protesters disrupted a budget vote Tuesday night. Saf Haq says she and about 40 others broke into song before midnight...

TORONTO - Ontario should be prepared for "tougher times" amid global economic disruption, but the government won't slash public sector jobs to buttress the budget amid uncertainty, the finance ministe...

OTTAWA - The union representing staff at Global Affairs Canada says the foreign service is laying off dozens of its highest-skilled diplomats, while asking other envoys moving across continents to wai...

If lower interest rates can't push homebuyers off the sidelines, perhaps a year's worth of free borrowing costs will. That's the hope for one developer whose offer joins a growing list of incentives a...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrat Emily Gregory won a special election for a Florida state House seat on Tuesday, flipping a district that is home to President Donald Trump's estate, Mar-a-Lago. The Republic...

OTTAWA - Voters in Terrebonne will use a write-in ballot in the upcoming byelection, as the Longest Ballot Committee has made the Quebec riding its latest target. Elections Canada's advisory committee...

QUBEC - Quebec's minister of health and social services has tabled a bill to relax the criteria for the involuntary hospitalization of patients experiencing a mental health crisis. The bill aims to ov...

TORONTO - Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Tuesday he believes the information and privacy commissioner, who is speaking out about changes he is making to freedom-of-information laws, is "politically dr...