Tag Archives: Politics

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...

VANCOUVER - B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad has changed his story about seeing a man die of a drug overdose on his way to a televised election debate, after the BC Coroners Service said it had no...

EDMONTON - A politician banned over a year ago from sitting in Alberta's governing United Conservative Party caucus for comparing transgender youth to feces is now allowed to join and says she has gro...

TORONTO - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said Wednesday that the federal government is moving ahead with guidelines around sustainable investing and corporate climate disclosures, but details on t...

SASKATOON, Sask. - A Saskatchewan Party candidate has repeated his apology for saying a racial slur a year ago, this time in person and with party leader Scott Moe. "Very dumb mistake. One word and it...

RICHMOND, B.C. - New Democrat Leader David Eby says he's focusing his provincial election campaign on commitments to B.C. residents after acknowledging he didn't speak enough about his team's work on ...

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick's Liberal leader is on the defensive for comments she made on a podcast months ago that her opponents charge make northern residents in the Bathurst area seem uneducated. I...

OTTAWA - Canada is adding another $15 million to its humanitarian aid package for Lebanon after an escalation in the conflict between Israel and the Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah. Internation...

OTTAWA - Liberal MP Yvan Baker criticized House of Commons Speaker Greg Fergus on Wednesday after he doled out two different punishments for similar infractions. Baker was speaking out on the day that...