Federal Politics

Kerr Running Green

PRINCE GEORGE - There is now a Green Party candidate for the riding of Cariboo-Prince George. Mackenzie Kerr is a 22-year-old UNBC student.She says there is a Green wave coming, with things like the c...

Jul 10, 2019 Mackenzie Kerr

MPs not running again will get paid around $1.6 million in severance

OTTAWA - Members of Parliament who have decided not to run for re-election this fall will cash in a cumulative $1.6 million in severance payments, and millions more will likely be paid out after ...

Jul 09, 2019

Scheer promises to scrap clean-fuel standard

socialOTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says he would scrap new standards that will force cleaner-burning fuels in addition to eliminating the federal price on carbon if his Conservatives win...

Jul 08, 2019

B.C. to argue for injunction on Alberta's turn-off-the-taps law in Calgary court

CALGARY - British Columbia's request for an injunction against Alberta's so-called turn-off-the-taps law is to be heard in a Calgary courtroom today. The legislation allows Alberta...

Jun 28, 2019

Plastics forks at Trudeau lunch a sign of hypocrisy: Conservatives

OTTAWA - The federal Conservatives are calling Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a hypocrite over plastic cutlery that was available at a lunch meeting he held with youth activists in his Montreal riding....

Jun 25, 2019

Liberals promise $13M for missing, murdered Indigenous women commemorations

OTTAWA - Gender Equality Minister Maryam Monsef says the federal government will fund more than 100 projects to "honour the lives and legacies" of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. Fund...

Jun 24, 2019

Alberta asks Court of Appeal to look at constitutionality of federal carbon tax

EDMONTON - Alberta's justice minister says the province is asking the courts to look into the constitutionality of the federal government imposing its carbon tax.Doug Schweitzer says the province has ...

Jun 20, 2019

Finance minister acknowledges skepticism, vows to build Trans Mountain expansion

CALGARY - Canada's finance minister says the best way to convince a skeptical oilpatch that the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion Ottawa approved Tuesday will actually be built is to go ahead and buil...

Jun 19, 2019

Federal cabinet ministers visit Edmonton, Calgary, in wake of TMX approval

EDMONTON - Two federal cabinet ministers are making appearances in Alberta today following the Trudeau government's controversial second approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. Natural...

Jun 19, 2019

Deadline for cabinet to decide future of Trans Mountain expansion is today

OTTAWA - The federal government is widely expected to green light the Trans Mountain expansion project a second time today but, even with a Yes vote, construction is likely weeks, if not months a...

Jun 17, 2019