Federal Politics

Green Party calls for Canada to stop using foreign oil

Green party Leader Elizabeth May says saving the world from climate change requires Canada to get off oil before the middle of the century.In the meantime, she wants Canada off foreign oil as soon as ...

May 27, 2019

Court says B.C. can't restrict oil shipments in key case for Trans Mountain

VANCOUVER - The British Columbia Court of Appeal says the province cannot restrict oil shipments through its borders in a decision that marks a win for the future of the Trans Mountain pipeline expans...

May 24, 2019

Conservative MPs from Alberta blast Liberals for shrugging off rural crime

EDMONTON - A year ago, Shannon Stubbs, Conservative MP for Lakeland, put forward a motion to study the issues of rural crime and the effects it can have on communities.The motion passed unanimously in...

May 23, 2019

Canadian retaliatory tariffs lifted as U.S. kills steel aluminum penalties

OTTAWA - Canada collected more than $1.27 billion from the retaliatory tariffs on U.S. products over the last year and all of it will go to the Canadian steel and aluminum industry even though the ste...

May 22, 2019

Diplomat, peacekeeper: Saskatchewan First Nation awaits Poundmaker exoneration

When Milton Tootoosis thinks about the planned exoneration of Chief Poundmaker, he breaks down.A headman and councillor at Poundmaker Cree Nation, about a two-hour drive from Saskatoon, Tootoosis says...

May 20, 2019

Ahead of Trudeau meeting, Kenney calls assessment bill a threat to unity

OTTAWA - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says if the federal bill overhauling environmental assessments passes in its current form it will threaten Canadian unity and there will be "an immediate constitu...

May 02, 2019

Ottawa boosts loans for canola farmers amid tensions with China

OTTAWA - The federal government is rolling out changes to a payment program for canola farmers to help those affected by China's decision to ban the Canadian product.Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude ...

May 01, 2019

Senate committee to hear from new Alberta premier on oil tanker ban bill

EDMONTON - A Senate committee is set to hear today from Albertans - including their new premier - on the federal government's bill to ban tankers off the British Columbia coast. The committee on trans...

Apr 30, 2019

"We are in a very difficult spot," Senator says about oil & gas

Senator Doug Black says something has to give in the ongoing dispute over pipelines and Alberta's energy industry.Black, a Calgary native, spoke at the Rotary Club of Red Deer luncheon on Monday at th...

Apr 29, 2019 (rdnewsNOW/Josh Hall)

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer promises detailed climate plan by end of June

VICTORIAVILLE, Que. - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says he will present his party's climate change plan by the beginning of summer. Speaking to supporters in Victoriaville, Que., on Saturday, Sch...

Apr 29, 2019