Tag Archives: Politics

VICTORIA - The chairman of the Childhood Obesity Foundation says a new tax on sugary soda will improve the health of British Columbia's children. Dr. Tom Warshawski says studies show sugary drinks con...

OTTAWA - The Senate's ethics officer says Conservative Sen. Victor Oh breached the upper house's ethics code four times when he accepted an all-expenses paid trip to China in 2017. More...

VANCOUVER - The man who was British Columbia's first case of the new coronavirus has fully recovered, is considered cured and health officials say he longer needs to be in isolation. Provinc...

VANCOUVER - A Wet'suwet'en hereditary chief says the chiefs won't meet with the federal government over their opposition to a natural gas pipeline until both the RCMP and Coastal GasLink leave their t...

HALIFAX - A Supreme Court of Canada decision could affect whether government lawyers can use confidential documents to defend their reputations if political bosses "throw them...

Here is the latest news on protests across Canada over a natural gas pipeline project in British Columbia:   Via Rail says it is temporarily laying off 1,000 employees due to blockades that conti...

TORONTO - Via Rail says it is temporarily laying off 1,000 employees due to blockades that continue to halt service on CN tracks in Eastern Canada. The Crown corporation has suspended passenger trains...

KANESATAKE, Que. - An Indigenous leader in Quebec is retracting comments about ongoing rail blockades that didn't go over well with members of his own community. Kanesatake Grand Chief Serge Otsi ...

OTTAWA - Federal prosecutors are signalling they want to move the national-secrets case against a senior RCMP official behind closed doors - at least temporarily - while a key issue is sorted out...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump has ousted the Pentagon's top policy official who had certified last year that the Defence Department had seen enough anti-corruption progress in Ukraine to justify...