3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (170+ words) Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is in New York City, where his office says he's doing media interviews to "fight for tariff-free trade" with the United States. Speaking to CNBC this morning, Poilievre pitched a stronger North America and said he…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (407+ words) British Columbia New Democrats won't court B.C. Conservative defectors, after nine legislators left the official Opposition caucus in the past three weeks, Premier David Eby said. Eby told an unrelated news conference Thursday that there was a "fairly significant gap" between…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (460+ words) Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne is expected to announce an extension of the gas tax holiday at a press conference in Ottawa on Wednesday. The Liberals temporarily suspended the federal 10-cent-per-litre excise tax on gas in April when the United States…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (133+ words) A Metro Vancouver woman has been fined more than $300 after being caught on video asleep behind the wheel of a Tesla driving on a busy highway. The BC Highway Patrol says the incident was reported on Aug. 11 around 3:30 p.m. on Highway…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (272+ words) B.C. Conservative Leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay says suggestions that a recording shows she illegally offered jobs to legislators, in exchange for resigning so she could stand in a byelection, are "preposterous." In the purported recording of Findlay addressing Conservative legislators that was…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (524+ words) Richmond-Bridgeport legislator Teresa Wat is the latest member to quit the B.C. Conservatives after announcing Wednesday she could no longer serve under leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay. Wat, who will sit as an Independent, said in a statement that Findlay failed to apologize…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (174+ words) B.C. Conservative Leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay will be holding her first news conference with members of her shadow cabinet, a day after another defection hit the party. Findlay will be talking to reporters in Vancouver with Jody Toor, who is Conservative caucus…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (119+ words) Prime Minister Mark Carney says the federal government will pour more than $11 billion into Quebec's shipbuilding industry to build six new icebreakers for the Canadian Coast Guard. In prepared remarks, Carney calls it the largest ship shipbuilding contract in the…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (979+ words) New tough-on-crime laws and statistics showing falling crime rates aren't likely to change how Canadians currently feel about crime or whether it's used as a political wedge between parties, some national pollsters say. David Coletto, CEO of Abacus Data, said…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (235+ words) British Columbia's Opposition Conservatives have replaced party president Aisha Estey as the shakeup under new leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay continues. Estey is replaced by former federal Conservative candidate Mauro Francis while vice-president Sharon White is also leaving the party board. Findlay…...