Tag Archives: Politics

PHILADELPHIA - People across the United States were watching as Joe Biden and Donald Trump squared off for the first presidential debate in a bid to invigorate would-be voters as the tight race for le...

NEMAIAH VALLEY, B.C. - Chief Joe Alphonse of the Tsilhqot'in First Nation says the 2014 court ruling that resulted in the first declaration of Aboriginal title in Canadian history triggered a decade o...

KIMBERLEY, B.C. - RCMP say an 11-year-old boy has drowned in Wasa Lake, north of Cranbrook in southeastern B.C. Police say the boy was out with two other children on Sunday on an inflated tube when it...

OTTAWA - Several federal cabinet ministers say they are all ears to what disgruntled voters are saying in the aftermath of a Toronto byelection defeat in what was considered a safe Liberal riding. Alt...

MONTREAL - The Quebec government has published new rules requiring French to occupy most of the space on storefronts and outdoor commercial signs, part of a larger effort to protect the French languag...

OTTAWA - Lawyers are trying to get in touch with hundreds of thousands of people who are owed money through a class-action lawsuit against Veterans Affairs. The suit was launched after the Veterans Om...

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says the province plans to opt out of the federal government's dental care plan by 2026. In a Tuesday letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Smith says the ...

CALGARY - Shell Canada is going ahead with its Polaris carbon capture project in Alberta. The company - the Canadian subsidiary of British multinational Shell PLC - announced Wednesday it has made a p...

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - The federal government has ended the Newfoundland and Labrador northern cod moratorium, which gutted the province's economy and transformed scores of coastal communities after it wa...

OTTAWA - An organizer who encouraged Jewish residents to vote against the Liberals in this week's Toronto byelection suggests a rise in antisemitism motivated many to show up at the polls. Andrew Kirs...