Politics

Now is the time to give 16- and 17-year-olds the right to vote in Canada — for our sake and theirs, writes Brennan Strandberg-Salmon.

As more Ontario communities contend with unwanted ministerial zoning orders, a playbook for how to oppose them is emerging: build a coalition, do your own research and keep the pressure high.

More than 9,000 temporary foreign workers come to B.C. each year from countries such as Guatemala, Mexico and Honduras. Without them, the agriculture industry would struggle to function.

Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson says there is no path to eliminating greenhouse-gas emissions that doesn't include phasing out coal power, but critics say Canada's leadership is tainted as long as this country keeps exporting thermal coal.

The federal government announced nearly $3.5 million in funding for the MySafe project, an initiative that provides people medical-grade opioids through a biometric vending machine.

A House of Commons committee is unanimously urging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to promise he won't call a federal election while the COVID-19 pandemic rages across Canada.

Several provinces began expanding their COVID-19 vaccination programs to members of the general population on Monday, March 1, 2021, as new recommendations on the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine suggested it should be targeted at younger Canadians.

Canada's new testing and quarantine rules for international air travellers appear to have convinced even more Canadians to stay put in recent weeks.

A lawyer for a group of British Columbia churches that are challenging the province's COVID-19 rules prohibiting in-person religious services argued on Monday, February 1, 2021, the orders reflect a "value judgment."

Alberta is opening up libraries and allowing low-intensity indoor group fitness workouts, like Pilates and tai chi, while it continues to monitor rates of COVID-19.

Assessments of mining activity should not proceed until “access to clean water, housing, and health services have been secured for all upstream and downstream communities from the proposed Ring of Fire," the groups say.

The Trudeau government is pressing ahead with efforts to counter economic-based threats to national security, such as theft of valuable intellectual property and damage to critical energy and information networks.

All federal party leaders maintain they don't want an election in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic but the Conservatives appear to be pursuing a strategy that could give the Liberals justification for calling one.

Canada's COVID-19 hotspots showed diverging approaches to handling the crisis on Sunday, February 28, 2021,as Ontario and Prince Edward Island prepared for new lockdowns while Quebec entered a week of spring break complete with some activities meant to ease the monotony of life during a global pandemic.

A legal advocacy group challenging British Columbia's COVID-19 restrictions on worship services and public protests is scheduled to be in court today, March 1, 2021, to argue its case.