Tag Archives: Federal Politics

RED DEER, Alta. - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney announced the creation of a panel that will examine ways to make his province more independent of Ottawa in a speech to the conservative Manning Centre o...

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says there's a "compelling case" to be made for his province to exit the half-century-old Canada Pension Plan - an idea sure to face inc...

OTTAWA - Eleven Canadian senators are forming a new caucus that aims to make sure regional issues get their due in the upper chamber. A statement from the newly christened Canadian Sena...

Regina's mayor spent a phone call Tuesday morning trying to put a Western Canadian bug in the prime minister's ear.Justin Trudeau has been calling mayors in Saskatchewan and Alberta, trying to gather ...

OTTAWA - International Trade Minister Jim Carr says he has been diagnosed with a form of blood cancer. Carr says in a statement that he has begun treatment for the disease, which he says has...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government expects to get $500 million a year out of the expanded Trans Mountain pipeline and is promising to spend it all on cleaner sources of energy and projects that...

REGINA - Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says Monday's election results confirm there's a fire of frustration burning in Western Canada. Moe is renewing his calls for Prime Minister Justin Tr...

OTTAWA - The Liberals have once more won the most seats in the House of Commons, but this time they do not have an outright majority. So what happens next? With fewer than the 170 seats needed to comm...

As a Liberal minority government was projected across Canada, a blue wave swept across Saskatchewan.The Conservative Party won in all 14 of the province's ridings, including that of longtime Liberal i...

EDMONTON - Alberta and Saskatchewan were painted a solid Conservative blue on Monday, but leaders must now wrap their heads around getting resources to market with a federal Liberal party that wi...