Canada

Quebec votes: Party leaders work to get the vote out on final campaign day

MONTREAL - Quebec's major party leaders made one final appeal to voters on the eve of Monday's general election as polls continued to show Franois Legault's party with a considerable lead over his adv...

Oct 02, 2022

'The lunatics are trying to take over:' Quotes from Kenney's time in Alberta politics

EDMONTON - Alberta's United Conservative Party is to vote in a new leader and premier on Thursday. Premier Jason Kenney announced in May, following a leadership review, that he would be stepping down....

Oct 02, 2022

The gig is up: Alberta Premier Jason Kenney set to step down from top job

EDMONTON - Don't cry for me, Alberta, I was leaving anyway. It's Premier Jason Kenney's swan song message as he prepares to depart the province's top job, forced out by the very United Conservative Pa...

Oct 02, 2022

Jason Kenney on list of past Alberta premiers to resign amid party strife

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney announced in May that he would be stepping down as United Conservative Party leader after receiving 51.4 per cent support in a leadership review. Kenney said th...

Oct 02, 2022

What each province, territory is doing on National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

Friday is the second annual National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, also known as Orange Shirt Day. The federal government made Sept. 30 a statutory holiday for its workers and federally regulated ...

Oct 02, 2022

Russian embassy complaints show tricky business of protecting embassies and diplomats

OTTAWA - Russia's recent complaints about its Ottawa embassy being blocked by protesters and attacked with a Molotov cocktail shed light on the tricky balance Canada faces in protecting diplomatic mis...

Oct 02, 2022

Quebec votes: CAQ's Legault holds lead as vote nears despite 'difficult' campaign

MONTREAL - Polls show the Coalition Avenir Qubec in position to coast to a second majority government Monday, but political observers say there is still plenty to watch for on election night -- in par...

Oct 02, 2022

Former Conservative senator Don Meredith charged with three counts of sexual assault

OTTAWA - A former senator who resigned from the upper chamber amid a sexual misconduct scandal is now facing criminal charges. Don Meredith, 58, has been charged with three counts of sexual assault an...

Oct 01, 2022

'I was really homesick': Some northern students travel far from home for high school

YELLOWKNIFE - When Angelina Arrowmaker was ready to start high school in 2017, she and her mother packed their bags and flew 195 kilometres south to Yellowknife. They made the move because the school ...

Oct 01, 2022

Quebec election: Party leaders begin final weekend of the campaign

MONTREAL - As the Quebec election campaign enters its final weekend the main party leaders are fanning out across the province. Coalition Avenir Qubec Leader Franois Legault is to have breakfast with ...

Oct 01, 2022