Tag Archives: Politics

CHICAGO (AP) - The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after the revered leader's assa...

VICTORIA - No wonder British Columbia Finance Minister Brenda Bailey thought she was going to be "the least popular person in the province." She tabled a budget Tuesday that boosts taxes, delays proje...

The co-founder of a group that supports victims and their families after mass shootings says a top priority when bringing students back to school in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., is to make them feel safe agai...

MONTREAL - Montrealer Marianick Baril says she's had eight flat tires since Christmas. Now, she plans her daily commute less on travel time and more by choosing the streets that have the fewest crater...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney is facing mounting calls to speak out against the United States for widening its restrictions on fuel reaching Cuba, or to send aid to the country. For more than a ...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney sent a clear signal through his overtures to the domestic defence industry on Tuesday: it's time to grow. Carney announced the country's first defence industrial st...

OTTAWA - The outlook for Canada's provinces is difficult to chart but some surprising resilience to U.S. trade pressures and historical revisions to economic data have most provinces on better footing...

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada reported an easing in the headline inflation rate Tuesday but a jump in the pace of food inflation amid tax changes and lingering pressures at the grocery store continue to ...

HALIFAX - French government officials met Monday in Paris with a U.S.-based group that wants to move France's last two captive whales to a proposed coastal refuge in Nova Scotia. No decisions were mad...

OTTAWA - There was no connection between a national security incident at the country's emergency stockpile warehouse in 2024 and an error that caused the loss of $20-million of medication, according t...