Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada and most other federal Crown corporations will be looking to trim their budgets over the coming years alongside a wider government effort to cut costs. A spokesperson said ...

EDMONTON - An Independent candidate running in a rural Alberta byelection says she has stopped door-knocking because of death threats. Sarah Spanier, 33, of Castor, Alta., says she has told Mounties a...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials will be given access to the personal data of the nation's 79 million Medicaid enrollees, including home addresses and ethnicities, to tr...

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick's premier is blaming a lack of long-term care space for serious overcrowding at four regional hospitals, as her government tries to fast-track patients out of those facilit...

OTTAWA - Canada's special official for fighting antisemitism announced on Thursday that she is retiring her post, three months before the end of her term. Deborah Lyons served as Canada's Special Envo...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston is threatening to overrule Halifax city council's efforts to create a new bike lane - drawing criticism he's unnecessarily meddling in municipal matters. The ...

A new analysis by the national housing agency estimates Canada could add 30,000 more housing starts annually by eliminating interprovincial trade barriers. Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says that ...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney said he was optimistic about finding consensus on the Liberals' major projects law as he met with hundreds of First Nations chiefs on Thursday, but by mid-afternoon...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department has fired Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI director James Comey and a veteran federal prosecutor who worked on the cases against Sean "Diddy" Combs an...

OTTAWA - U.S. President Donald Trump introduced 25 per cent tariffs on all imports of steel and aluminum on March 12, and doubled the levies to 50 per cent in early June. The Canadian government has r...