Tag Archives: Politics

SURREY - The mayor of Surrey, B.C., says she won't support a provisional budget request for the city's police force, calling a $91-million increase in funding "extraordinarily excessive." Brenda Locke...

MONTRAL - A doctor and former head of a Quebec political party has been suspended for six months from practising medicine by the province's college of physicians for his approach to treating patients ...

OTTAWA - The vice-chair of the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency says the spy watchdog will face "very difficult choices" about what it examines in coming years due to federal budget cu...

OTTAWA - Conservative immigration critic Michelle Rempel-Garner said Wednesday it's time for the federal government to end virtual citizenship ceremonies. The Conservatives campaigned on this idea dur...

OTTAWA - Anti-armament advocates say Canadian firms shouldn't be selling armoured military vehicles to United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or any other organizations with sketchy human ...

VICTORIA - The British Columbia NDP caucus says legislator Joan Phillip is dealing with an illness that requires additional testing. New Democrat caucus chair Garry Begg said in a news release on Wedn...

OTTAWA - The federal government is in the process of sending letters with information on its planned early retirement program to almost 70,000 employees as it works to reduce the size of the public se...

QUBEC - The Quebec government is planning to eliminate the equivalent of 5,000 full-time positions in the civil service by March 2027. Treasury Board President France-laine Duranceau also says that by...

OTTAWA - A coalition that includes civil liberties, community and labour groups called on the Liberal government Wednesday to withdraw its hate crime bill. Tim McSorley of the International Civil Libe...

OTTAWA - A British Columbia Liberal MP said Wednesday Prime Minister Mark Carney "will have to answer" questions on why he reversed a budget commitment on tax credits when he signed the Alberta energy...