Tag Archives: Politics

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Around 250 federal border agents are set to descend on New Orleans in the coming weeks for a two-month immigration crackdown dubbed "Swamp Sweep" that aims to arrest roughly 5,000 p...

HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia government says it's making progress on improving public access to mental-health care, but advocates say the province is falling short. Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston promis...

A British Columbia woman who escaped an abusive relationship was concerned about the safety of her pets and belongings she left behind so applied to the Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Redu...

HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia government's websites were off-line for part of the day because of an outage at Cloudflare, a widely used internet infrastructure company based in San Francisco. The company ...

OTTAWA - Conservative MP Shannon Stubbs missed Monday's critical budget vote because she is recovering from major surgery, a statement posted to social media said Tuesday. The budget motion passed by ...

The Alberta government has introduced the winning contender in its new "Strong and Free" licence plate survey. After more than 240,000 votes were cast, Albertans picked Moraine Lake, in Banff National...

VICTORIA - British Columbia has abandoned a rebate program for electric vehicles that it paused six months ago and is scrapping a mandate that every new vehicle sold in the province must be zero-emiss...

HALIFAX - A vice-president of a Halifax legion has been barred from holding a lottery licence in Nova Scotia after he took home winnings in two draws he helped organize. David Long broke the law when ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Both the House and Senate acted decisively Tuesday to pass a bill to force the Justice Department to publicly release its files on the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a remar...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney is travelling to the United Arab Emirates tonight before making his way to South Africa for the G20 Leaders' Summit later this week. A news release from the Prime M...