Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney has unveiled his 28-member cabinet and it's a mix of familiar and new faces from across Canada. Carney's cabinet is smaller than that of his predecessor - former pr...

CALGARY - Ottawa is weighing the proposed takeover of Calgary-based Parkland Corp. by American fuel distributor Sunoco LP at a time of fraught Canada-U.S. relations and amped-up resource nationalism. ...

Gregor Robertson set himself a bold goal as the newly elected mayor in Vancouver in 2008 - ending street homelessness in the city by 2015. Seventeen years later, British Columbia remains immersed in t...

MONTREAL - The Bloc Qubcois candidate for the Montreal-area riding of Terrebonne says she's evaluating her options after a judicial recount that saw her lose by a single vote. Nathalie Sinclair-Desgag...

TORONTO - Local residents and a First Nation brought their fight against a large landfill to Queen's Park, where they accused the premier of trampling over the community's concerns to fast-track a pro...

EDMONTON - The union representing thousands of Alberta government workers has voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action. Guy Smith, president of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees, said m...

The mayor of an Ontario municipality set to be the home for Honda's now-postponed $15-billion electric-vehicle project said Tuesday he is not giving up hope on the plant. New Tecumseth Mayor Richard N...

OTTAWA - For the first time ever, an Indigenous person has been chosen to lead the federal department responsible for providing services to First Nations, Inuit and Mtis communities. Mandy Gull-Masty,...

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says picking Julie Dabrusin as Canada's environment minister is a bad idea that forecasts renewed federal opposition to her province's wellspring oil and gas ...

Canada's business community will be monitoring files across various portfolios after Tuesday's swearing-in of Prime Minister Mark Carney's new cabinet. Corporate leaders and business associations say ...