Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - Newly released documents show Ottawa has spent more than $8 million in legal fees in the ongoing human rights case over First Nations child welfare. Cindy Blackstock, executive director of th...

OTTAWA - With hundreds of foreign nationals flown out of Wuhan, China, over the last week by their home countries, politicians and people across the country have wondered why Canad...

WASHINGTON - Utah Sen. Mitt Romney said Wednesday he will vote to convict President Donald Trump, becoming the first and likely only Republican to break ranks during the Senate's impeachment trial and...

OTTAWA - Almost $150 million allocated to help protect Canada's oceans has gone unspent by the Trudeau government over the past two years. The Liberals have touted their $1.5-billion oceans protection...

VANCOUVER - Opponents of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion say they will do whatever it takes to stop the project after suffering a devastating legal blow at the Federal Court of Appeal. Tsleil-Wa...

OTTAWA - Sen. Lynn Beyak is denying she ever claimed to be Metis. She issued a two-line statement today saying the media have reported that she is Metis but she says she has never been a mem...

SMITHERS, B.C. - The British Columbia government and First Nations hereditary chiefs say they have failed to reach an agreement on a peaceful resolution over the enforcement of an injunction in n...

MONTREAL - Quebec Premier Francois Legault is dismissing naysayers who are accusing his government of wasting $30 million on an investment in giant blimps. Legault told report...

Montreal Mayor Valerie Plante says the city will move to fully ban the sale of plastic bags by the end of 2020. Plante told a city council meeting today that the current measures that limit retai...

TORONTO - Relatives of a slain American soldier have won a skirmish in their attempt to collect on a US$134-million wrongful-death award against former Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr. In a pre-tri...