Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations is calling on all members of Parliament to send a First Nations water bill to the Senate before the holiday break, saying the water crisis ...

HALIFAX - Former Halifax mayor Mike Savage was sworn in Friday as Nova Scotia's 34th lieutenant-governor during a ceremony at the provincial legislature. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Savage...

VANCOUVER - A confidence agreement between British Columbia's New Democrats and the provincial Green Party stabilizes David Eby's bare-majority government, while putting Green election promises on the...

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Two former premiers of Newfoundland and Labrador say a draft energy agreement signed Thursday with Quebec shattered a political standoff that leaders had been trying to end for deca...

CHILLIWACK, B.C. - Dan Coulter, a former member of British Columbia's legislature and a New Democrat cabinet minister, has died at age 49. The BC New Democratic Party says in a statement that Coulter ...

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland says the upcoming fall economic statement on Monday will remove the cap that currently restricts Canadian pension funds from owning more than 30 per cent of the voti...

OTTAWA - Canadian airline executives are set to testify before a parliamentary committee about their decisions to introduce carry-on bag fees for travellers. The CEOs of Air Canada and WestJet will ap...

CALGARY - The Alberta government is proposing a reworked Green Line light rail transit route in Calgary that it says would serve more communities and save more than $1 billion. The province contracted...

TORONTO - The federal government's GST break will arrive this Saturday, just in time for the last stretch of holiday shopping. Here's a breakdown of what you'll save on and how the relief works. What ...

Public support is key to the success of a strike, experts say, but as the Canada Post strike drags on, that support is likely getting harder to maintain. "As strikes wear on, they become more difficul...