Tag Archives: Politics

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says anyone seeking an independence referendum should not have "gatekeepers," like the courts, standing in their way. Smith was asked about the independence q...

OTTAWA - Prominent Russian democracy activists are urging Ottawa to resettle dozens of their peers who tried to claim asylum in the U.S. and now face deportation and imprisonment in Russia. The activi...

OTTAWA - The federal government has disclosed the first eight projects to be managed by the new Defence Investment Agency. The large military procurements include Canada's next fleet of submarines, Ar...

OTTAWA - Canada is dropping its terror listing for the group that has governed Syria since the ouster of dictator Bashar Assad one year ago. Syria is no longer listed as a state supporter of terrorism...

WHITEHORSE - The Yukon government says it will need to spend more than $150 million to replace an aging dam spillway. A statement from the government says engineers have confirmed that temporary repai...

TORONTO - The mayors of Ontario's 29 largest cities are calling on the province to declare a state of emergency as municipalities deal with what they call a "community safety and humanitarian crisis" ...

OTTAWA - NDP MP Jenny Kwan is dismissing an internal Liberal caucus document as a "fearmongering" attempt to dissuade government MPs from supporting her bill to tighten oversight of defence-related ex...

NEW YORK (AP) - Vanity Fair is parting ways with West Coast editor Olivia Nuzzi amid ongoing controversy over her relationship with profile subject Robert F. Kennedy Jr. while she was the Washington c...

SURREY - First Nations are celebrating a British Columbia Court of Appeal ruling which found the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the provincial mineral claims regime...

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government announced a new location Friday for the province's first supervised drug consumption site, months after its initial proposed location ran into public opposition. The...