Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - Conservative party leadership candidates Peter MacKay and Erin O'Toole are poised to kick their respective campaigns up a notch as both have now secured places on the contest ballot. On Frida...

As of Jan. 1, every Canadian and all Canadian businesses are paying a price on carbon. The federal Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act means provinces that do not have their own price on pollution th...

OTTAWA - A top U.S. Defense Department official says her country is working on cyber weaknesses in its vast array of military equipment - and will shut down anything that isn't brought up to stan...

KAHNAWAKE, Que. - A blockade in the Mohawk community of Kahnawake that has halted rail traffic south of Montreal for more than three weeks is being dismantled. The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake confirme...

OTTAWA - Lush Cosmetics has launched a campaign calling on people to pressure the Canadian Parliament to back out of an agreement with the U.S. that governs refugee claims in both count...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba's Progressive Conservative government has changed course and is introducing a carbon tax. Premier Brian Pallister says his government will enact a $25-per- tonne tax, starting July...

VICTORIA - Police say five people have been arrested following a protest at the British Columbia legislature. Victoria police say the five were taken into custody at about 9 p.m. Wednesday and&nb...

WASHINGTON - Elizabeth Warren, who electrified progressives with her "plan for everything" and strong message of economic populism, dropped out of the Democratic presidential race on Thursday, accordi...

OTTAWA - The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project has cleared another legal hurdle. The Supreme Court of Canada has decided not to hear five challenges from environment and Indigen...

WASHINGTON - Canada is spearheading what Transport Minister Marc Garneau hopes will become an international effort to protect civilian airliners around the world from being shot down over conflic...