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Canada could be barred from a future peacekeeping mission in Ukraine, expert says
OTTAWA - Canada may have difficulty taking part in a peacekeeping mission in Ukraine after a future ceasefire because it has clearly taken a side in the conflict, an international affairs expert sugge...
Feb 28, 2025
Here's how the PCs' win in Ontario's snap vote stacks up against elections past
The Progressive Conservatives have won a third consecutive majority government in Thursday's snap vote - a feat accomplished for the first time in more than 50 years of Ontario elections. The last tim...
Feb 27, 2025
A look at re-elected Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford
Doug Ford, leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, has secured a third majority mandate after calling a snap election four weeks ago. Born: Nov. 20, 1964. Early years: Ford was born a...
Feb 27, 2025
Here's the latest on the Ontario provincial election
The Progressive Conservatives will form a third consecutive majority government in Ontario after a snap winter election. Here are the latest developments. All times eastern. --- 11:15 p.m. The early e...
Feb 27, 2025
Alberta government appoints Martin Long as new infrastructure minister
EDMONTON - Alberta has a new minister of infrastructure. Martin Long has been appointed to the cabinet post after the previous minister resigned earlier this week. Long, the member for West Yellowhead...
Feb 27, 2025
Hundreds of school support workers rally at legislature as Alberta releases budget
EDMONTON - Hundreds of striking school support workers marched through the streets of downtown Edmonton to the Alberta legislature on budget day and stood outside, waving signs, blowing horns and dema...
Feb 27, 2025
Judge finds mass firings of federal probationary workers were likely unlawful
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A federal judge in San Francisco on Thursday found that the mass firings of probationary employees were likely unlawful, granting temporary relief to a coalition of labor unions a...
Feb 27, 2025
B.C. solicitor general says Opposition operative took mentally ill man from care home
VICTORIA - British Columbia's Solicitor General is accusing the B.C. Conservative Party of involvement in removing a man from a mental-health facility against the wishes of his family as the Oppositio...
Feb 27, 2025
B.C. to require Canadian-made biofuels to meet standards for gas, diesel
British Columbia is set to require Canadian products to fulfil renewable fuel standards for gasoline and diesel, a move Energy Minister Adrian Dix said was aimed at building a "cleaner, stronger and m...
Feb 27, 2025
Little government progress on Doukhobor compensation, B.C.'s ombudsperson says
VICTORIA - British Columbia's ombudsperson says the lack of government progress on compensating Doukhobors who were wrongfully detained in the 1950s is "disheartening." A statement from Jay Chalke say...
Feb 27, 2025
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