Tag Archives: Politics

COMOX - A Vancouver Island councillor and family doctor has announced his candidacy for the B.C. Green Party leadership. Dr. Jonathan Kerr says he will officially launch his campaign on Saturday with ...

VICTORIA - Victoria Mayor Marianne Alto said residents will see a difference in community safety within six months after announcing $10.35 million in funding for additional police and bylaw officers, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge said Wednesday that an order by President Donald Trump suspending asylum access at the southern border was unlawful, throwing into doubt one of the key pillars of the...

TORONTO - Ontario is expanding the delivery of publicly paid orthopedic surgeries through private clinics in an effort to reduce wait-lists. Ontario is investing $125 million to add upwards of 20,000 ...

EDMONTON - Two sitting Alberta legislature members kicked out of Premier Danielle Smith's governing United Conservative caucus seek to form a rival party to challenge her. And they plan to use a famou...

OTTAWA - Former Liberal foreign affairs minister Lloyd Axworthy is accusing Prime Minister Mark Carney of taking a "bootlicking" approach to U.S. President Donald Trump at the expense of Canadian valu...

WINNIPEG - The former head of Manitoba Hydro was paid just over $881,000 last year, despite being dismissed six weeks into the year. Jay Grewal's earnings in previous years, where she had worked a ful...

OTTAWA - The Canada Revenue Agency says taxpayers who already paid the now-defunct digital services tax will have to wait for Ottawa to pass new legislation before they can get their refund. Prime Min...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP's earlier story follows below. LOS ANGELES (AP) - Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law an overhaul of California's landmark environmental protection ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. is halting some shipments of air defense missiles and other munitions to Ukraine amid concerns that its own stockpiles of such supplies have declined too much, officials sai...