Politics

CALGARY — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her government plans to spend $180 million over three years to build two involuntary drug addiction treatment centres.

MONTREAL — Indigenous people risk being pushed aside as Canada looks to defend itself against a possible trade war with the United States, says an outgoing regional chief of the Assembly of First Nations.

VANCOUVER — The Musqueam Indian Band has signed an agreement with the federal government to share ground lease revenue from the Vancouver International Airport.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia’s premier says he is withdrawing amendments to a bill that would have allowed his government to fire the province’s auditor general without cause and veto the public release of her reports.

KYIV — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau did not rule out sending Canadian troops to Ukraine as part of a possible ceasefire deal as he joined European leaders Monday in Kyiv to mark the third anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion.

WASHINGTON (AP) — New FBI Director Kash Patel was sworn in Monday as acting chief of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives , taking the helm of two separate and sprawling Justice Department agencies, according to a person familiar w

TORONTO — Ontario's Progressive Conservatives released their platform Monday, with three days until election day, and it contains $40 billion in promises plus a proposal to get rid of the minimum retail price for liquor.

OTTAWA — Jagmeet Singh says he's "absolutely" the right person to lead the New Democrats into the next election despite the party's drop in the polls.

Federal employees across the country, many of whom have worked from home since the COVID-19 pandemic, were back at agency offices Monday under President Donald Trump’s return-to-office mandate .

WASHINGTON (AP) — As they mustered support for their confirmations by the U.S. Senate, some of President Donald Trump's appointees made statements from which they've already distanced themselves upon taking office.