Tag Archives: Politics

VICTORIA - Rules are being tightened for British Columbia's overdose-prevention safer supply program to require a witness when a user takes their drugs in an effort to stop the pills from being sold o...

TORONTO - The Ontario government spent the highest recorded amount on advertising last year, the auditor found, a flurry of public spending the opposition parties accused the government of using to pr...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Federal authorities are preparing a targeted immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota that would primarily focus on Somali immigrants living unlawfully in the U.S., a move tha...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Costco is joining other companies that aren't waiting to see whether the Supreme Court strikes down President Donald Trump's most sweeping import taxes. They're going to court to dem...

QUBEC - Quebec Liberal Leader Pablo Rodriguez has expelled his former parliamentary leader from his caucus, saying she lacked loyalty to him and to the party. On Tuesday, Rodriguez said Marwah Rizqy h...

EDMONTON - Alberta's privacy watchdog is raising concerns about the government's plan to add health-care numbers to driver's licences and other forms of identification. Information and privacy commiss...

OTTAWA - Culture Minister Marc Miller expressed support Tuesday for removing a religious exemption on hate speech from the Criminal Code. Miller told reporters he doesn't "think people should be using...

OTTAWA - The RCMP said Tuesday it teamed up with other law enforcement agencies to seize 386 kilograms of fentanyl and significant amounts of other illicit drugs over a five-month period. The Mounties...

OTTAWA - Dozens of advocates for women and LGBTQ+ people in Canada and abroad are demanding clarity from the Carney government on its message shift on feminism. In an open letter co-ordinated by Oxfam...

OTTAWA - The federal government's response to a report it commissioned on national pharmacare was "shockingly dismissive," NDP interim leader Don Davies said this week as he called on the Liberals to ...