Tag Archives: Politics

FREDERICTON - With New Brunswick's provincial election approaching, a housing advocacy group is calling on the next government to strengthen tenants' rights, particularly through caps on rent increase...

OTTAWA - In a story on Oct. 9 about Canada donating another $15 million in aid for Lebanon relief efforts, The Canadian Press erroneously reported that the federal government would match donations to ...

VIENTIANE - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has congratulated the new prime minister of Thailand for her country's move to legalize same-sex marriage. Trudeau made the comments during a bilateral meetin...

TORONTO - Toronto city council is granting the island airport a lease extension that would keep the hub open for at least another two decades. In a 17-8 vote on Wednesday, councillors passed a motion ...

OTTAWA - A federal inquiry into interference in Canada's affairs is slated to hear today from Foreign Affairs Minister Mlanie Joly. Former public safety minister Marco Mendicino is also scheduled to t...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Millions of Social Security recipients will get a 2.5% cost-of-living increase to their monthly checks beginning in January, the Social Security Administration announced Thursday. Th...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Inflation in the United States dropped last month to its lowest point since it first began surging more than three years ago, adding to a spate of encouraging economic news in the cl...

Saskatchewan Party Leader Scott Moe is scheduled to make an announcement in Prince Albert this morning as the Oct. 28 election draws closer. Moe is set to visit area businesses later in the day. READ ...

The British Columbia Conservatives are standing by a candidate who called Palestinian children "inbred" and "time bombs," remarks that NDP Leader David Eby describes as "criminal hate speech." Conserv...

EDMONTON - Alberta's government has reached a new tentative four-year pay deal with resident physicians as the province grapples with overcrowding in hospitals and a potential health-care labour disru...