Tag Archives: Politics

ALBANY, N.Y. - The nearly $1 billion Constitution Pipeline project, which had been designed to take natural gas from Pennsylvania's shale gas fields to metropolitan New York and New England, has been ...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says reconciliation requires a "peaceful resolution" to the blockades that have kept rail traffic from operating across the country. In question period in the Ho...

OTTAWA - The United Nations' top disarmament official says governments need to pay more attention to the "dark side" of artificial intelligence, including the implications of so-called killer robots t...

TORONTO - Members of Ontario's legislature began a new tradition Monday of singing "God Save the Queen" in the chamber, which an Indigenous politician said is a step backward for reconciliation. The l...

EDMONTON - Alberta Opposition NDP Leader Rachel Notley says a decision by Teck Resources to abandon its oilsands mining project should be a wake-up call for Premier Jason Kenney. Notley says Kenney's ...

OTTAWA - The federal government is being urged to increase diversity in the senior ranks of the public service. The call comes as black public servants gather in the national capital today to dis...

VICTORIA - Overdose deaths linked to illicit drugs dropped by 36 per cent last year in British Columbia compared with a year earlier, but the number of fatalities is about the same as when t...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia's government says money laundering has distorted the economy, fuelled the opioid crisis and overheated the real estate market as a provincial inquiry into the cr...

VICTORIA - A seventh case of the novel coronavirus has been diagnosed in British Columbia. Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says a man in his 40s who is a close contact of the sixth cas...

OTTAWA - The Trudeau government promises to introduce legislation today aimed at making it easier for intolerably ill Canadians to get medical help to end their lives. The bill will scrap a ...