Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - The Conservative leadership race is underway and the deadline to register as a candidate and meet the first round of requirements is Feb. 27. These candidates have been approved by the party,...

OTTAWA - Call it the Iowa of the federal Conservative leadership race. Just as that state is the first stop on the road to the U.S. presidency, on Saturday Nova Scotia is the setting for the debut gro...

SMITHERS, B.C. - A hereditary chief of the Wet'suwet'en nation says a woman has been arrested aboard a bus where she was living in northern British Columbia as police enforce an injunction relate...

Former national security adviser John Bolton's team on Friday accused the White House of trying to suppress his unpublished book after word surfaced that the National Security Council had sent him a l...

OTTAWA - Conservatives are accusing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of stacking Canada's courts with Liberal partisans, pointing to a recently appointed judge who has donated almost $26,000 to...

QUEBEC - The Coalition Avenir Quebec government is set to invoke closure for a fourth time in eight months as it looks to pass an education bill that would spell the end of school boards across the pr...

CALGARY - Alberta's environment minister says the province is not interested in any federal handout if Ottawa rejects the proposed Frontier oilsands mine. A Reuters report, citing unidentified sources...

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Friday that the state will file a lawsuit challenging the Department of Homeland Security's decision to block New Yorkers from participating "trusted traveller programs...

OTTAWA - The Canadian Institutes of Health Research is set to release some urgent funding to study the novel coronavirus - including the fear it causes. The federal granting agency says it wants ...

KENAI, Alaska - An Alaska legislator has introduced a bill to rename a road to honour a late professor of anthropology at Kenai Peninsula College. The legislation to rename a road in front of the coll...