Politics

EDMONTON — The Alberta government has approved a $175-million recovery program for municipalities and Metis settlements affected by wildfires.

A United Nations body has affirmed earlier findings that Canada's largest national park remains under environmental threats from dams, oilsands development and climate change.

VANCOUVER — About 7,400 workers have been on strike at ports along British Columbia's coast since Saturday morning.

HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia government has dismissed the judge presiding over an inquiry that has spent much of the past five years investigated why Afghanistan war veteran Lionel Desmond killed three family members and himself in 2017.

OTTAWA — An explosion of hate and a tirade of misinformation about LGBTQ rights has advocates in Ottawa calling for help from all levels of government.

REGINA — Saskatchewan's former NDP leader has written a book on how the province responded to the COVID-19 pandemic.

VANCOUVER — Elections BC has banned longtime political organizer Mark Marissen and other Progress Vancouver candidates from running in the next round of local elections after it deregistered their party for breaking campaign finance rules.

A judge on Tuesday prohibited several federal agencies and officials of the Biden administration from working with social media companies about “protected speech,” a decision called “a blow to censorship” by one of the Republican officials whose laws

Canadians' misunderstanding of best before dates could be contributing to excess food waste and, in turn, food insecurity, experts say as a government committee urges Ottawa to examine the issue.

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. — British Columbia's health minister says the long-awaited redevelopment and expansion of the 1960s-era hospital serving the Cariboo region is underway. Adrian Dix says the $366.