Tag Archives: Politics

EDMONTON - Alberta's auditor general estimates the government's failed effort to privatize community lab testing services left taxpayers on the hook for about $109 million. Auditor general Doug Wylie,...

WINNIPEG - Winnipeg police have charged a man in a months-long series of break-ins and deliberately set fires that had business owners, politicians and others on edge. Jesse Robert Shawn Wheatland, 35...

A group associated with an American Christian singer is suing the Quebec City municipal administration after it cancelled one of his shows over the summer. Burn 24/7 Canada had organized the Canadian ...

TORONTO - Ontario Education Minister Paul Calandra is signalling that he will act quickly to use new powers granted to him to take control of school boards, eyeing one board in particular identified b...

OTTAWA - Senators have passed sweeping amendments to a bill that would simplify the transfer of First Nations status between generations, rejecting the federal government's advice to limit its scope. ...

British Columbia's jobs minister says ending a tanker ban on the province's northern coast to service a pipeline from Alberta to B.C. would put billions of dollars' worth of other projects at risk by ...

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...