Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - With the prospect of public service cuts looming over the capital, an Ottawa economic development agency is making a pitch for federal help to grow out the local defence industry and turn it ...

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says if teachers follow through on a provincewide strike Monday, her government will provide families backstop money and a do-it-yourself curriculum guide so ...

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says Imperial Oil's "very disappointing" plan to lay off roughly 20 per cent of its workforce by 2027 reinforces the need to build more pipelines. Smith is blaming Ottaw...

ST. JOHN'S - The City of St. John's has rescheduled its municipal election by several days because of the strike at Canada Post. Officials said in a news release Monday the vote will take place on Oct...

WINNIPEG - Police are investigating a fire that broke out early Tuesday morning at the constituency office of Manitoba Families Minister Nahanni Fontaine. The blaze came roughly one week after windows...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada welcomes U.S. President Donald Trump's "historic new Middle East peace plan," which Washington has asked Ottawa to sell to other nations. Trump's plan t...

WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump returned to his talk of annexing Canada during an unprecedented speech to top military leaders on Tuesday. The president was speaking about his "Golden Dome" m...

Howie Mandel is coming home to host a Canadian spinoff of "The Price is Right," and unlike softwood lumber or steel, he quips, his services come with no duties attached. "I'm hosting tariff-free," the...

OTTAWA - InterRent Real Estate Investment Trust says it has received Investment Canada Act approval for its deal to be acquired by a group including executive chair Mike McGahan and Singapore sovereig...

MONTREAL - A defiant Franois Legault took a fighting stance as he entered a party convention last weekend, accompanied by the theme song from Rocky III. The Quebec premier threw a few mock punches and...