Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - Five premiers say Ottawa must withdraw its recent call for limits on the notwithstanding clause because it amounts to a "complete disavowal" of the bargain that spawned the Charter of Rights ...

VICTORIA - Premier David Eby says a pipeline plan across northern B.C. by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith threatens community support and social licence that would allow other major projects along the ...

VANCOUVER - Too many wildland firefighters "hang up their boots" in British Columbia as wages and working conditions erode, but losing that experience could also mean billions in losses, a wildland fi...

OTTAWA - The protest group that signed up hundreds of candidates in recent elections went before a House of Commons committee today, where MPs asked them whether they're actually achieving their aims....

TORONTO - The federal and Ontario governments are urging each other to help 30 belugas at Marineland, which has threatened to euthanize the whales if the park does not receive emergency funds from Ott...

OTTAWA - The federal Liberals are indicating they plan to revamp their border security bill in response to widespread concerns about its impacts on civil liberties and privacy. Public Safety Minister ...

MONTREAL - Two years after their home was expropriated to make way for a rail bypass, Lac-Mgantic, Que., resident Raymond Savoie and Rita Boulanger are still fighting to stay in the stone cottage wher...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's NDP leader is highlighting a pair of her party's housing bills she says were lost in the government's rush to wrap up the fall sitting of the legislature. Claudia Chender says ...

OTTAWA - Ottawa's fiscal watchdog says that while there are good ideas in the new budget framework the federal government announced this week, its definition of capital spending could blur the picture...

TORONTO - Ontario Premier Doug Ford has denied a request from more than 20 mayors across the province to tweak instead of scrap the speed camera program, vowing to eliminate speeding through other mea...