Tag Archives: Politics

HALIFAX - A significant cut to Nova Scotia's home heating program was called out by the Opposition NDP leader on Wednesday, who said 46,000 fewer households are eligible for the rebate this year. Clau...

OTTAWA - Ottawa will aggressively push competition between companies in a bid to ease the cost of living, Industry Minister Mlanie Joly said on Wednesday as she opened the Competition Bureau's annual ...

OTTAWA - Ottawa Public Health says it's being forced to close a supervised consumption site in the city's ByWard Market area because Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones hasn't given her permission fo...

A federal buyback of assault-style firearms from individual owners announced earlier this month prompted misleading social media posts from American influencers saying it will soon become "criminal" t...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney is appointing a "personal representative" to the European Union to oversee trade and defence ties with the bloc, sunsetting a role that focused in part on human rig...

TORONTO - Ontario's environment ministry says it will miss its 2030 greenhouse gas emissions reduction target but the auditor general says even that admission of failure is downplayed. Auditor general...

TORONTO - Marineland says it is "profoundly" disappointed by the federal government's decision to deny its request to ship 30 belugas to China and the park has "no ability to pay" for their care - wit...

The U.S. government is taking a minority stake in Lithium Americas, a company that is developing one of the world's largest lithium mines in northern Nevada. The Department of Energy will take a 5% eq...

VANCOUVER - Hundreds of British Columbia public sector workers marched through downtown Vancouver Wednesday in a push for a new contract, after talks with government negotiators broke down shortly aft...

HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia government is weakening democracy by packing bills with an unreasonable number of legislative changes, say opposition parties and political scientists. Alex Marland, a politi...