Tag Archives: Politics

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's plan to increase the provincial role of the RCMP is being questioned by some mayors who say they are wary of the implications for their municipal police forces. Under changes a...

OTTAWA - The federal government will use this summer's planned consultation on immigration targets to guide future decisions about how many study visas it will issue to international students in the f...

REGINA - Saskatchewan's provincewide wildfire state of emergency is no more exactly one month after it was issued. Officials with the Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency say the order expired late last ...

TORONTO - Ontario is investigating an alleged breach of 200,000 home care patients' personal health data, Health Minister Sylvia Jones said Friday. Ontario Health atHome, the provincial agency co-ordi...

MONTREAL - Prayer rooms, political student groups and controversial course content are fuelling a climate of tension and mistrust at two of Quebec's junior colleges, according to a new government repo...

Ontario is expanding its suite of publicly funded private community surgical and diagnostic centres, Premier Doug Ford said Friday. The province will invest $155 million over the next two years to cre...

WINNIPEG - About 100 residents, including horn honkers, sign-wavers and dog walkers, descended upon a famed Winnipeg intersection Friday to legally cross the street in more than four decades. Long gon...

The final numbers are in on last year's Alberta budget, and the bottom-line figure is an $8.3-billion surplus. It's $2.5 billion more than officials had expected to get, and Finance Minister Nate Horn...

British Columbia's Police Complaint Commissioner says he's called a public hearing to probe misconduct allegations against three current and three former Nelson police officers over alleged racist, se...

CALGARY - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says the public desire in her province to quit Canada has never been higher. Smith says a recent byelection that saw a separatist candidate garner almost 18 pe...