Tag Archives: Politics

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...

EDMONTON - An Alberta judge tasked with reviewing the constitutionality of a proposed referendum question on the province separating from Canada is calling a new government bill undemocratic, as it ai...

OTTAWA - Hundreds of workers have been warned they may lose their jobs as the government moves to shrink the size of the public service. The Public Service Alliance of Canada said Friday that 219 of i...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba Progressive Conservatives have hired Alberta strategist Stephen Carter to guide their next election campaign. Carter led the so-called "purple wave" mayoral campaign of Naheed Nens...

EDMONTON, ALBERTA, CANADA - Seventeen Alberta legislature members with Premier Danielle Smith's United Conservative Party caucus are officially facing recall petitions from constituents. A recall camp...

EDMONTON - Almost one-quarter of all politicians in the Alberta legislature now face citizen-led petition drives to remove them from office. Alberta's chief electoral officer told a legislature commit...