Tag Archives: Politics

EDMONTON - The Alberta government has announced the appointment of a new interim chief medical officer of health, days after the previous one's contract expired. Officials say Dr. Sunil Sookram is to ...

EDMONTON - An outspoken member of Alberta's legislature, booted from the United Conservative Party caucus, is airing more detailed allegations of what he calls government deception over a health-care ...

VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Park Board says it's gearing up for "unpermitted" events on April 20 including on Sunset Beach, where thousands of people gathered in recent years to smoke cannabis to the ch...

WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump showed little signs of backing down on his plans to tariff the world Thursday - even as members of his administration continued to claim the duties will lead t...

EDMONTON - Alberta's transportation minister is calling on the province's two major cities to remove bike lanes from key roadways, prompting critics to say the government is overstepping and making an...

VANCOUVER - The University of British Columbia has briefly reopened admissions for its graduate programs to take applications from U.S. citizens in what is a growing trend for Canadian institutions as...

REGINA - The Saskatchewan legislature has unanimously passed an Opposition NDP private members' bill to formally recognize Sikh Heritage Month in April. Bhajan Brar's legislation says the month is imp...

MONTREAL - WestJet has walked back its bid to put temporary foreign workers in the cockpit. In an email, spokeswoman Julia Kaiser confirmed that the airline halted its hunt for overseas recruits for r...

Talk of the western provinces separating from the rest of Canada is a "tired trope" that needs to stop, British Columbia Premier David Eby says. Eby told a news conference Thursday he doesn't think th...

SAN SALVADOR (AP) - Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen met with Kilmar Abrego Garcia on Thursday evening in El Salvador, coming face to face with the wrongly deported man after two days in the country pus...