Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - Conservatives are questioning why CBC is funding a spoof program that used false pretences to lure high-profile people accused of downplaying the damage caused by residential schools into sit...

Ottawa's electricity strategy will consider ways government can shoulder some of the cost of doubling the country's grid by 2050 and ensure equipment and workers are available to make it happen. The f...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia's Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner says the City of Vancouver is required to refuse to disclose addresses of short-term rental operators because it would...

OTTAWA - The stage is being set for a constitutional challenge of the federal government's new immigration law, which imposes timelines on how long someone can be in Canada before making a refugee cla...

CALGARY - Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith say they'll be in Calgary on Friday to announce the next step in their landmark energy pact. Carney says it will feature an impl...

TORONTO - Ontario's new and more restrictive freedom-of-information laws have quashed another request, this time for documents that may have given a glimpse into potential hospital cuts. More than 70 ...

VICTORIA - A review by legislators on the 2024 British Columbia provincial election has found that the vote was "administered fairly, accurately and transparently," although the group has issued 48 re...

TORONTO - Ontario will expand its vastly overcrowded jails by 2,500 beds over the next 10 years at a cost of $3 billion to the taxpayers, the province's solicitor general said Thursday. Michael Kerzne...

VICTORIA - The agency overseeing British Columbia elections says it will issue a recall petition against OneBC legislator Dallas Brodie -- and she says she's fine with that. Elections BC said it would...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Thursday his government is open to selling public assets if the proceeds could help fund new infrastructure. The November federal budget and April spring ec...