Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - Two new candidates have been approved to enter the Conservative leadership race as the clock ticks down towards Thursday's deadline to register. New MP Derek Sloan and Ontario party acti...

DENVER - Colorado is set to become the 22nd U.S. state to abolish the death penalty after lawmakers on Wednesday approved a repeal bill that Democratic Gov. Jared Polis has pledged to sign into law. P...

OTTAWA - The federal government's economic assessment of the new North American free-trade deal says it will be worth $6.8 billion to the Canadian economy by 2025, compared with having no continental ...

OTTAWA - Canada's biggest annual birthday bash is moving away from Parliament Hill. The July 1 festivities that normally see thousands of people dressed in red, white and maple-leaf att...

OTTAWA - Independent senators want to suspend Sen. Lynn Beyak a second time, even though she has apologized for posting derogatory letters about Indigenous Peoples on her website. After months of...

HALIFAX - A Nova Scotia city councillor is pushing for quiet fireworks in Halifax out of concern the noise is alarming veterans and people on the autism spectrum. However some in the pyrotec...

WASHINGTON - Sixty-five years after 14-year-old Emmett Till was lynched in Mississippi, Congress has approved legislation designating lynching as a hate crime under federal law. The bill, introduced b...

VANCOUVER - The organization representing real estate agents in British Columbia has told a provincial inquiry into money laundering that its members have only ever accepted modest cash deposits ...

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne says Canadians should think carefully about where they and their families are planning to travel for spring break in the light of the nove...

CALGARY - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is warning the province's $1-billion fund established last year to support Indigenous participation in major projects won't have any projects to back i...