Tag Archives: Politics

EDMONTON - An Alberta First Nation has revived a lawsuit it launched 10 years ago in an effort to get the federal government to recognize its human right to clean, safe water. The Ermineskin Cree Nati...

HALIFAX - Following an extraordinary reversal by Premier Tim Houston, the Nova Scotia legislature on Thursday adopted a bill declaring domestic violence an epidemic in the province. The lightning fast...

OTTAWA - Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner says her party will introduce a bill in the House of Commons next week to protect people from online harassment. Rempel Garner says the Liberals have ha...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - A state judge struck down North Dakota's ban on abortion Thursday, saying that the state constitution creates a fundamental right to access abortion before a fetus is viable. In ...

FREDERICTON - Provincial leaders across Canada are taking turns criticizing the federal Liberal government's proposal to alleviate immigration pressure on Quebec and Ontario by resettling asylum seeke...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - A state judge struck down North Dakota's ban on abortion Thursday, saying that the state constitution creates a fundamental right to access abortion before a fetus is viable. In ...

OTTAWA - Canada's consul general in New York told members of a House of Commons committee on Thursday that he had nothing to do with the purchase of the country's new official residence in New York Ci...

QUBEC - Quebec wants to curb excessive tipping as part of new legislation the government says will help people save money. Simon Jolin-Barrette, minister responsible for consumer protection, tabled a ...

MONTREAL - NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh won't say whether he would keep the consumer carbon price if his party forms government after the next election. Speaking to reporters in Montreal on Thursday, Sing...

QUBEC - Quebec legislature member Youri Chassin announced Thursday he's leaving the Coalition Avenir Qubec to sit as an Independent, becoming the second member of government to quit in a little more t...