Tag Archives: Politics

WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Republicans voted down legislation Wednesday that would have put a check on President Donald Trump's ability to use deadly military force against drug cartels after Democrats ...

KAMLOOPS - A regional district in the British Columbia Interior has declared a state of local emergency as an illegal dam threatens to burst. The Thompson-Nicola Regional District has already issued a...

MOOSE JAW - Many were surprised Wednesday in Moose Jaw when Premier Scott Moe and some of his cabinet ministers arrived to inform locals the city's downtown homeless shelter would be moving. Mayor Jam...

MONTREAL - The Atikamekw Council of Manawan has launched legal action against the Quebec government over its inaction on repairs to the only road that links the Indigenous community to southern Quebec...

VICTORIA - The British Columbia government has tabled what it says is the first law in Canada to recover health care costs from companies that use "deceptive practices" to sell vaping products. Attorn...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government has split its border security bill in two in the hope of seeing some measures pass swiftly while giving Canadians more time to evaluate other, more contentious ones. Bi...

WASHINGTON - Prime Minister Mark Carney met with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington this week to advance negotiations on lifting or easing a growing list of tariffs. Trump's ever-shifting tarif...

OTTAWA - Mark Carney has received more than a dozen gifts from world leaders since becoming prime minister - everything from Herms ties and crystal bowls to a sculpture of Winston Churchill. But the g...

ST. JOHN'S - An advocacy group in Newfoundland and Labrador says three activists from the province were recently detained by the Israeli military while they were part of a flotilla to deliver humanita...

VANCOUVER - A former Kamloops, B.C., lawyer admits to killing his client, but his defence counsel says it wasn't planned and that evidence at the trial doesn't support a first-degree murder conviction...