Tag Archives: Politics

VICTORIA - A public health advocacy group is urging the British Columbia government to end a contract with an American company that owns LifeLabs, the province's main provider of outpatient lab servic...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump on Wednesday inserted himself directly into trade talks with Japanese officials, a sign of the high stakes for the United States after its tariffs rattled the ...

TORONTO - An Ontario law empowering the province to remove three major Toronto bike lanes is being tested in court by a group of cyclists who argue it's unconstitutional. The law passed last year allo...

TORONTO - Ontario Premier Doug Ford is urging all of his fellow premiers to join his province and others in taking steps to remove barriers to the free flow of goods and workers within Canada, pitchin...

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's government has introduced promised legislation to allow for people to be forced into addiction treatment facilities. If the bill passes, parents, family mem...

OTTAWA - Liberal Leader Mark Carney's French language skills will be put to the test, and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre will seek to turn his numbers around, when the five main federal party le...

OTTAWA - The Federal Court of Appeal has dismissed a challenge of a government ban on firearms that Ottawa considers fit only for the battlefield, not hunting or sport shooting. The Liberals outlawed ...

EDMONTON - Alberta is seeking a new chief medical officer of health as the government says Dr. Mark Joffe's contract has expired. Health Minister Adriana LaGrange's office said in an email Tuesday tha...

The odds of new applications from immigrants being accepted into British Columbia's nominee program this year have dropped to near zero for anyone other than health workers or entrepreneurs. The provi...

REGINA - Saskatchewan's health minister has rejected accusations from a nurses union and the Opposition NDP that some babies from Regina's neonatal intensive care unit were sent to North Dakota for ca...