Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada will lay out today how many Canadians live below the country's low-income threshold as part of an updated portrait of poverty. The results will be closely watched today ...

EDMONTON - The Alberta Court of Appeal is to release its decision today in the province's challenge of the federal government's carbon tax. Lawyers for the province argued in a hearing in De...

VANCOUVER - Teck Resources Ltd. says it has withdrawn its request for approval for its Frontier mining project and will write down its cost. More coming. The Canadian Press

MONTREAL - Quebec's education minister has formally apologized to a renowned McGill University ethics professor for removing him from consultations based on false information. Jean-Francois Roberge de...

TORONTO - Ontario health officials say there's a new presumptive case of the novel coronavirus in Toronto. They say a woman arrived in Canada from China on Friday and went to a Toronto hospital w...

EDMONTON - The Alberta government has struck deals with two northern Alberta First Nations over a proposed open-pit oilsands mine that's awaiting Ottawa's approval. The Mikisew Cree and Athabasca Chip...

OTTAWA - The ghosts of Indigenous protests past have hovered over Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as his government struggles to bring a peaceful end to blockades that have disrupted traffic o...

WASHINGTON - It's been a running gag ever since she launched her bid to become president of the United States: Amy Klobuchar knows how to handle a Canadian winter. Not long after the Minnesota se...

OTTAWA - Federal officials lost or possibly destroyed sensitive records about the case of a naval officer convicted of selling secrets to Russia, an investigation by Canada's information commissi...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia's attorney general hopes an inquiry into money laundering will answer lingering questions about how the criminal activity flourished in the province and identify those who...