Tag Archives: Politics

VICTORIA - A maximum 20-per-cent home-flipping tax is among new regulations taking effect in British Columbia as of Jan. 1, with a promised middle-income tax cut arriving in the coming months as well ...

WINNIPEG - New rules governing the sales of machetes and other long-blade weapons in Manitoba come into effect Tuesday. Retailers are required to keep the items stored in a way so shoppers can't acces...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew is leaving the door open to financial support for people affected by possible tariffs and other actions that may be taken by United States president-elect Donald ...

EDMONTON - Happy Birthday, Celsius! Environment Canada's use of Celsius turns 50 years old in 2025. It was the catalyst of a lengthy national metric conversion that abruptly ended a decade after it be...

The federal government plans to extend the deadline for claiming charitable donations on tax returns through to the end of February. The announcement from Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc comes nearly...

NEW YORK (AP) - A federal appeals court on Monday upheld a jury's finding in a civil case that Donald Trump sexually abused a columnist in an upscale department store dressing room in the mid-1990s. T...

OTTAWA - The head of the North American Aerospace Defence Command says Chinese and Russian air co-operation in the Arctic has Norad's "full attention." Those two countries for the first time staged a ...

MONTREAL - Municipal leaders across Quebec are looking for ways to get young people, especially women, to run for local office in next year's elections, but that is a tall order given the well-documen...

WINNIPEG - The days when a Manitoba premier could ride a bicycle to work alone and unworried about their security seem like a long time ago. In the decade since Greg Selinger took a two-wheel commute ...

COBBLE HILL, B.C. - Gil Yaron barely contains his excitement when asked to describe his non-profit venture to convince construction companies, developers and renovation contractors to recycle tonnes o...