Tag Archives: Politics

CALGARY - With timelines tightening, Calgary city council wants to return to the bargaining table with the Alberta government to discuss a reworked plan to build a multibillion-dollar light-rail-trans...

British Columbia's new finance minister said she is "realistic" about the economic challenges facing the province after announcing this year's record deficit is projected to reach $9.4 billion. Brenda...

REGINA - Saskatchewan's conflict of interest commissioner has found Health Minister Jeremy Cockrill breached rules when a window company with family ties did business with the government three years a...

OTTAWA - The Liberals are planning to introduce legislation to exempt the Canada Disability Benefit from being treated as income under the Income Tax Act. The fall economic statement, which was releas...

EDMONTON - The head of the Edmonton Police Commission says he's stepping down, days after announcing he'd finish out his term while living abroad in Portugal. John McDougall said in a statement Tuesda...

OTTAWA - The RCMP plans to create a new aerial intelligence task force to provide round-the-clock surveillance of Canada's border using helicopters, drones and surveillance towers. The move is part of...

TORONTO - Ontario is investing $93 million to build a new base and buy new planes for Ornge, the province's air ambulance organization. Health Minister Sylvia Jones says the new hangar will be built a...

OTTAWA - The federal government has pushed its target to achieve a net-zero electricity grid back 15 years to 2050 as part of new clean electricity regulations announced Tuesday - though officials mai...

OTTAWA - The Conservatives are calling for Parliament to hold hearings in January on Canada-U.S. trade ahead of president-elect Donald Trump's entry to the White House, as Canadian businesses and expe...

LANGLEY, B.C. - Federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is hailing a decisive British Columbia byelection victory in Cloverdale-Langley City, where Tamara Jansen has won with about two-thirds of ...