Tag Archives: Politics

CALGARY - Alberta's energy minister says the government will not draw on the public purse to clean up abandoned oil and gas wells. "We will not put public tax dollars into cleaning up wells," Brian Je...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's opposition leaders are questioning an undisclosed trip by a provincial cabinet minister to U.S. President Donald Trump's inauguration in January. Minister of Social Development...

OTTAWA - With a federal election call expected any day now, the Liberal party has only nominated about half of the candidates it would need to have a full slate on the ballot even as their polling num...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development by billionaire Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency likely violated the Constitution, a federal judge rule...

OTTAWA - Former foreign affairs minister Lloyd Axworthy wants Canada to mount a campaign with like-minded countries to stop eastern European allies from leaving a treaty he helped broker that bans the...

IQALUIT - Prime Minister Mark Carney says he hopes recovering the remains of two First Nations women murdered by a serial killer from a Manitoba landfill brings closure to their families. RCMP have co...

WASHINGTON (AP) - In an extraordinary display of conflict between the executive and judiciary branches, Chief Justice John Roberts rejected calls for impeaching judges shortly after President Donald T...

HALIFAX - Academics and students told a Nova Scotia legislature committee Tuesday that a bill giving the government more control over the province's 10 universities is a case of overreach that could t...

OTTAWA - The annual rate of inflation accelerated sharply to 2.6 per cent in February as the federal government's temporary tax break came to an end mid-month, Statistics Canada said Tuesday. That mar...

IQALUIT - Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday that Ottawa will expand the Canadian Armed Forces' presence in the Arctic and turn to Australia's over-the-horizon radar tech to monitor threats from ...