Tag Archives: Politics

TORONTO - The leader of Ontario's official Opposition was kicked out of question period Wednesday morning after calling Premier Doug Ford's government "corrupt," a sentiment Marit Stiles later doubled...

MONTREAL - Pablo Rodriguez is facing his biggest crisis since becoming leader of the Quebec Liberals in June, after a news report on Wednesday alleged some party members were paid to vote for him in t...

ABU DHABI - Prime Minister Mark Carney arrived Wednesday in Abu Dhabi to seek more ties with the United Arab Emirates in fields like artificial intelligence - just as the country stands accused of hel...

EDMONTON, ALBERTA, CANADA - The Alberta government has invoked the Charter's notwithstanding clause to protect from legal challenge a trio of laws affecting transgender youth and adults. It's the seco...

EDMONTON - The Alberta cabinet minister in charge of primary care says legislation is coming - but won't provide details - amid reports the province plans to let doctors work in the public and private...

BURNABY - The bargaining association representing more than 67,000 health-care workers in British Columbia's hospitals and long-term care facilities says it has reached a new four-year deal with its e...

British Columbia's police complaint commissioner says his office is gearing up to conduct systemic investigations in an expanded mandate that would go beyond individual cases of police misconduct in h...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee National Guard will keep supporting a crime-fighting task force ordered by President Donald Trump in Memphis after a judge blocked the troops from operating in the ...

OTTAWA - Legislation to implement the Liberals' new federal budget will also spell the end of Canada's ill-fated digital services tax. Finance Minister Franois-Philippe Champagne introduced legislatio...

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...