The United Conservative Party’s reign will officially begin Tuesday when incoming premier Jason Kenney and his cabinet are sworn in at Government House in Edmonton. The ceremony starts at 10 a.m., when Kenney is to become Alberta’s 18th premier. Related Premier-designate Jason Kenney names senior staff Alberta Premier-designate Jason Kenney says UCP received ‘mandate of […]
Plans were in place to introduce a crucial exit bill in the Commons in the scramble to secure the UK’s departure from the bloc. But the timetable was ripped up and the delay means a new wave of British MEPs are now likely to take up their seats in Brussels in July. Senior Conservative figures believe […]
Saskatchewan’s advocate for children and youth, Corey O’Soup, considers mental health to be the main issue pacing the province’s young people. In his 2017 report, O’Soup said he wanted to focus on positive work that is being done to help kids. This year’s report includes highlights of several positive initiatives, like a photography club in […]
Labour has kicked a decision on a second referendum down the road after agreeing to stick to Jeremy Corbyn’s Brexit policy fudge. The party’s ruling body took more than five hours to thrash out a compromise in a bid to unite warring Labour MPs for now. The National Executive Committee agreed Labour’s manifesto for the […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Tuesday launched his latest salvo at the Federal Reserve, saying the U.S. economy could go “up like a rocket” if the central bank were to cut interest rates. “We have the potential to go … up like a rocket if we did some lowering of rates, like one […]
WASHINGTON — Intelligence officials asked the National Security Agency to unmask the identities of Americans in surveillance-based intelligence reports 16,721 times last year — a significant rise from a year earlier, a new report revealed on Tuesday. But the N.S.A. also collected fewer logs of Americans’ phone calls and text messages for analysis by counterterrorism […]
(Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump, three of his children and one of his companies filed a federal lawsuit Monday against Deutsche Bank and Capital One Financial Corp to block the banks from complying with federal subpoenas investigating his financial dealings. The federal lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court’s Southern District of New York, […]
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is pushing to issue an order that would designate the Muslim Brotherhood a foreign terrorist organization, bringing the weight of American sanctions against a storied and influential Islamist political movement with millions of members across the Middle East, according to officials familiar with the matter. The White House directed national […]
Labour's deputy leader has walked out of a crunch meeting amid a row over Brexit . Tom Watson left this morning's Shadow Cabinet while it was still ongoing as senior figures split over whether to demand a second referendum. A source claimed he "stormed out" after Jeremy Corbyn's team refused to hand out hard copies […]
The European elections take place from May 23 to 26 and political parties are deciding their manifestos in a campaign largely expected to focus on Brexit. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is coming under increasing pressure from his party to commit to a second referendum on Brexit. More than 90 MPs and MEPS have written to […]