Tag Archives: Politics

VANCOUVER - Expanded fishing closures and size restrictions were announced Friday as part of new actions by the federal government to protect threatened Fraser River chinook salmon populations. Terry ...

WASHINGTON - A federal judge on Friday criticized former Trump administration national security adviser John Bolton for moving to publish his book without formal clearance from the White House, but th...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says a rule in the House of Commons that the Speaker must be informed when a member of Parliament is arrested is not being followed and should be addre...

WASHINGTON - The two senior commanders on a coronavirus-stricken aircraft carrier didn't "do enough, soon enough," to stem the outbreak, the top U.S. Navy officer said Friday, a stunning reversal that...

CHARLOTTETOWN - A statue of Sir John A. Macdonald in Prince Edward Island was doused in red paint Friday, the latest in a series of defaced sculptures and monuments depicting historical figu...

EDMONTON - Premier Jason Kenney is sharply rebuking those who believe the best way for Alberta to get a better deal out of Confederation is to threaten to quit it. "I am an unqualified Canadian p...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia's premier says there's no excuse for "dehumanizing behaviour" after some emergency room staff were accused of playing a game to guess the blood-alcohol levels of Indi...

OTTAWA - Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson is scaling back the government's planned Clean Fuel Standard in the short term to give the fossil fuel industry a bit more time to recover from the pan...

VANCOUVER - Ports along the West Coast of Canada and the United States were quiet Friday as workers with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union stopped operations to support ra...

OTTAWA - The Trudeau government has not provided the resources that departments and agencies need to answer the steeply growing number of requests for records from the public, information co...