Tag Archives: Politics

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston says he is relinquishing the energy minister role he gave himself as part of his push to turn the province into an energy superpower. The premier announced th...

FREDERICTON - The New Brunswick government says it plans to tell each municipality across the province how much it should raise property taxes every year as it tries to address spiking bills. The gove...

WINNIPEG - Members of the Manitoba legislature sat overnight and into Wednesday afternoon in an ongoing battle over a government budget bill that includes a tax cut on some food. The bill contains sev...

OTTAWA - The resignation of one of the most prominent environmental voices in the Liberal caucus was held up Wednesday as a watershed moment for a government accused of prioritizing economic developme...

OTTAWA - The federal government is entering into contract negotiations with Saab to buy a fleet of surveillance aircraft for the Royal Canadian Air Force, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Wednesday. Ot...

EDMONTON - Alberta's secession movement is unlike other separatist efforts in democratic countries across the world, experts say. Those outside of Canada, including ones that led to the 2014 referendu...

VICTORIA - Relations between the British Columbia government and First Nations plunged this year as Premier David Eby grappled with how or whether to amend the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous ...

OTTAWA - Canada's biggest arms expo is booming as an uncertain geopolitical climate and the federal government's drive to rebuild the military combine to light a fire under the defence tech sector. Hu...

PLANO, Texas (AP) - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton won the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate on Tuesday, easily defeating four-term Sen. John Cornyn in the latest contest where President Donald...

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government plans to greatly reduce the number of locations where flavoured vaping products can be sold, but one group says the idea does not go far enough and lags behind effor...