Tag Archives: Politics

EDMONTON - A former deputy premier of Alberta says the success of a petition he circulated to make it official policy for the province to stay in Canada should signal to Premier Danielle Smith that sh...

OTTAWA - Some of Canada's allies are praising Ottawa's work on preventing Russia from smuggling oil through concealed ships - ships that Ottawa fears could someday unleash an environmental cataclysm i...

VICTORIA - British Columbia Premier David Eby said his government was not done yet advocating for the family of Kelowna woman Bailey McCourt, whose ex-husband was charged with murdering her hours afte...

VICTORIA - British Columbia Premier David Eby said the province plans to push ahead with anti-tariff advertisements aimed at the American public, days after U.S. President Donald Trump blamed a campai...

WINNIPEG - Former Manitoba premier Heather Stefanson has paid an $18,000 fine for violating the province's conflict of interest law in pushing for a mining project. Legislature Speaker Tom Lindsey say...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's largest electric utility says it has fallen months behind in paying contractors and suppliers because of a cyberattack in March that saw hackers trying to steal personal inform...

DUCK LAKE - The Saskatchewan town of Duck Lake is older than the province and situated near a historic battle site. It got its name from the birds that migrate through the area. But now, the town's ma...

The Quw'utsun Nation says public comments by British Columbia Premier David Eby and other politicians about its groundbreaking Aboriginal title case in Richmond, B.C., are "at best, misleading, and at...

HALIFAX - Less than one week after the Nova Scotia premier dropped her from cabinet, Becky Druhan says she is leaving the Progressive Conservative caucus to sit as an Independent because of difference...

TORONTO - Ontario's attorney general is proposing to get rid of fixed election dates in the province, in a set of reforms that would also see the limit for political donations raised to $5,000 and mak...