Tag Archives: Politics

WASHINGTON - A delegation of premiers will be in Washington this weekend to reinforce cross-border business ties with their American counterparts, hedging their bets...

OTTAWA - The federal ethics watchdog says former Liberal MP Joe Peschisolido repeatedly broke the code of conduct for members of Parliament. Ethics commissioner Mario Dion says in a report that Peschi...

OTTAWA - Canada's ambassador to China says there is a chill in relations between the two countries since the People's Republic imprisoned two Canadians, but his top priority is winning their release a...

Quebec's immigration minister is denouncing federal funding reportedly granted to a group contesting the province's secularism law in court. Simon Jolin-Barrette says it's not right that Quebec taxpay...

OTTAWA - The new crop of parliamentarians overseeing the security-and-intelligence community includes the first Bloc Quebecois MP to sit on the committee. The Prime Minister's Office says Bloc MP Chri...

WINNIPEG - There's renewed talk of transporting western oil through the northern Manitoba port in Churchill, but any such project is likely to run into opposition from environmentalists and some ...

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...