Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - Nearly half of those who voted for the federal NDP at least once over the past four elections don't recognize the names of the five current leadership candidates, a new poll suggests. The Ang...

OTTAWA - Gun control advocacy group PolySeSouvient blames "weak political leadership" for what it calls "poor participation" in a federal compensation program for banned firearms. Public Safety Minist...

HALIFAX - Residential power rates in Nova Scotia are going up, but not quite as much as the biggest utility in the province was hoping. The provincial regulator has issued a lengthy decision on Nova S...

QUBEC - The Quebec Conservatives now have an elected member in the national assembly after a former cabinet minister with the Coalition Avenir Qubec crossed the floor to join the party. Mat Blanchette...

OTTAWA - The federal government says it has no plans to reopen its embassy in Syria. Gregory Galligan is Canada's ambassador to Lebanon and also covers Syria, and he tells the House foreign affairs co...

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...