Politics

Saskatchewan, Ottawa sign $16M deal on school food program

REGINA — The Saskatchewan government has signed a $16-million deal with Ottawa to expand school food programs. The agreement will see the federal government invest the money over three years.

Mar 10, 2025 11:44 AM Read more >

Meet the federal worker who went rogue: ‘I hope that it lights a fire under people’

NEW YORK (AP) — To billionaire Elon Musk and his cost-cutting team at the Department of Government Efficiency, Karen Ortiz may just be one of many faceless bureaucrats.

Mar 10, 2025 10:38 AM Read more >

Scholars stranded in America and abroad amid funding freeze of State Department programs

Fulbright grant recipient Aubrey Lay was supposed to get paid for three months of work by the U.S. government through his teaching assistantship at a school for Ukrainian refugees in Estonia.

Mar 10, 2025 9:15 AM Read more >

'How did we survive?' What Canadians recall — and don't — about the COVID-19 pandemic

TORONTO — There had been warning signs for months. There were the reports of dangerous flu-like symptoms in Asia. News of the lockdown that kept tens of millions of people inside their homes in China.

Mar 10, 2025 2:00 AM Read more >

Drawing huge crowds, Bernie Sanders steps into leadership of the anti-Trump resistance

WARREN, Mich. (AP) — Bernie Sanders is standing alone on the back of a pickup truck shouting into a bullhorn.

Mar 9, 2025 10:06 PM Read more >

Mark Carney to become next PM after sweeping Liberal leadership race

OTTAWA — Federal Liberals elected Mark Carney to lead their party into the next election in a resounding first-ballot victory on Sunday, putting him on track to soon become the next prime minister of Canada.

Mar 9, 2025 9:34 PM Read more >

From Fort Smith to global finance and back, Carney's not your usual politician

OTTAWA — Even when Mark Carney was still in high school, his friends bugged him about whether he would become prime minister one day. His answer was one fit for a future politician: to never confirm nor deny.

Mar 9, 2025 6:06 PM Read more >

Air Force intercepts aircraft flying in a restricted zone near Mar-a-Lago

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.

Mar 9, 2025 1:40 PM Read more >

Would Mark Carney be Canada's first unelected prime minister?

OTTAWA — If Mark Carney wins the Liberal leadership race on Sunday, would he succeed Justin Trudeau as the first prime minister to be sworn in without first having been elected? The answer is no.

Mar 9, 2025 10:18 AM Read more >

How one small business is navigating Trump’s on-again, off-again tariffs on Canadian goods

NEW YORK (AP) — At Fishtown Seafood, owner Bryan Szeliga is worried about the oysters. Szeliga, who operates three retail and wholesale locations in Philadelphia and Haddonfield, N.J., sells a range of seafood.

Mar 9, 2025 9:46 AM Read more >