Tag Archives: Politics

TORONTO - The Ontario government is proposing to push through a bill that would close 10 supervised consumption sites without holding any public hearings, a move advocates and opposition critics say i...

EDMONTON - Prairie premiers are urging Canada to act on American concerns over illegal cross-border traffic of people and drugs to stave off the looming threat of 25-per-cent tariffs. Alberta's Daniel...

MONTREAL - Quebec Premier Franois Legault is putting pressure on the Montreal police to arrest everyone involved in an anti-NATO protest that turned violent last week. In Quebec City on Tuesday, Legau...

OTTAWA - Canada is considering supplying the RCMP and border agency with more resources including drones, helicopters and personnel in case of a "surge" at the border, Public Safety Minister Dominic L...

TORONTO - Canadian business leaders say Donald Trump's threat to impose a 25 per cent tariff on all Canadian goods would be a "lose-lose" scenario in which local companies face pressure to lower their...

GRANJENO - When Elizabeth Olivarez goes to the gym in the morning, she has her guard up. The yards and fields of her small Texas town are a well-trodden path for people who illegally crossed the borde...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston led the Progressive Conservatives to an overwhelming majority win Tuesday, bucking a trend in recent provincial elections that saw incumbents roughed up by th...

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - Alberta's Opposition NDP says a decision not to mail out voter registration cards due to the Canada Post strike could hurt turnout in a provincial byelection that is set for a week...

A long-withheld investigation into a 2019 hacking at LifeLabs Inc. that compromised millions of Canadians' health data has finally been made public after an Ontario court dismissed the company's appea...

OTTAWA - Canada's premiers are asking Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to hold an urgent first ministers' meeting ahead of the return to office of president-elect Donald Trump. The re-election of the oft...