Tag Archives: Politics

MONTREAL - Foreign nurses recruited to Quebec through a provincial government program faced "major obstacles" upon their arrival, including a lack of housing, child care and transportation, according ...

QUBEC - Against the backdrop of U.S. tariff threats, the Quebec government tabled a budget on Tuesday with a record $13.6-billion deficit and billions of dollars in new infrastructure spending to stim...

EDMONTON - A longtime Alberta New Democrat member of the legislature is resigning his seat, sparking what will be the third provincial byelection in Alberta since the 2023 provincial vote. Rod Loyola ...

REGINA - The Saskatchewan government is walking back part of its decision to stop purchasing all American-branded alcohol products in response to U.S. tariffs. The province says it is allowing the sal...

WINNIPEG - A member of the Manitoba legislature has resigned his seat to run in the federal election. Progressive Conservative Grant Jackson is leaving his Spruce Woods seat in western Manitoba to run...

Two Saskatoon libraries are closing for now because staff are being spat on and attacked while treating drug overdose emergencies and cleaning washrooms smeared with blood and human waste. Cara Stelma...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump will nominate Dr. Susan Monarez, the acting director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to the job, a White House official confirmed Monda...

ST. JOHN'S - More than half of Canada's provincial and territorial governments buy critical internet and emergency communications services from Starlink - a satellite constellation owned by billionair...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump said Monday he would be placing a 25% tariff on all imports from any country that buys oil or gas from Venezuela as well as imposing new tariffs on the South A...

TORONTO - Dozens of supporters packed a Toronto courtroom - and two overflow rooms - on Monday as a supervised consumption site challenged the legality of a new provincial law that will soon shut down...