Tag Archives: Politics

VICTORIA - A recent study in British Columbia confirms far more people have carried the novel coronavirus than were tested for it, and public health officials say the findings will...

VANCOUVER - Another record for monthly overdose deaths related to illicit drugs has been set in British Columbia, prompting the former provincial health officer to call for radical step...

OTTAWA - Parliament's budget watchdog says parliamentarians should probe details about steep losses at Crown corporations and increased borrowing the Liberals outlined in their recent fiscal snapshot....

VANCOUVER - The union representing hospitality workers across the country says it fears staff laid off because of COVID-19 may not have a job when the pandemic is over. The challenges facing workers a...

The federal, provincial and territorial governments have reached a deal on billions of dollars in transfers to continue reopening economies amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Prime Minister Justin Trude...

MONTREAL - A Quebec coroner is questioning why the Transport Department failed to maintain a stretch of highway northeast of Montreal where a man died last year afte...

OTTAWA - The Green party has shown the door to one of its leadership candidates, saying several of his recent comments do not align with the party's values on diversity. Dylan Perceval-Maxwell wa...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security says Canada and the United States have agreed to extend their mutual ban on non-essential travel between the two countries until Aug. 20. "Based o...

OTTAWA - Canada's elections watchdog says a Quebec engineering firm illegally donated more than $46,000 to federal political entities over a period of seven years. The firm, now known as Norda Stelo I...

HALIFAX - As a statement of police power, the armoured rescue vehicle that Halifax Regional Police had planned to buy for more than $300,000 spoke volumes about the militarization of law enf...