Federal Politics

Moe fires back at federal minister over NRTA

Premier Scott Moe is firing back with some strong words at the federal justice minister after the minister made some comments last week about the Natural Resources Transfer Agreements (NRTA).Justice M...

Apr 10, 2023

Budget watchdog troubled by spin around latest report on carbon pricing

OTTAWA - Canada's Parliamentary budget officer said he is troubled by what he describes as the selective use of facts from his new financial analysis of carbon pricing. Yves Giroux said the report has...

Apr 09, 2023

Liberals pledge revamp of forced-labour bill, possible enforcement rules surprise MP

OTTAWA - The Trudeau government is revamping its approach to modern-day slavery, promising new legislation that caught off guard the Liberal MP who has been steering a bill on forced labour through Pa...

Apr 08, 2023

Federal tax workers vote in favour of striking in middle of tax filing season

OTTAWA - More than 35,000 federal workers who assess and approve tax returns will be in a legal strike position by April 14, just two weeks before the annual deadline for Canadians to file their taxes...

Apr 07, 2023

Federal minister tours La Ronge, promotes 2023 budget

Minister of Rural Economic Development Gudie Hutchings was in La Ronge on Thursday to promote the federal government's 2023 budget. Hutchings made a short announcement at Robertson Trading Ltd., where...

Apr 06, 2023

LLRIB releases official general election results

Official results have been released for last month's election for the Lac La Ronge Indian Band.It shows Tammy Cook-Searson has been re-elected as Chief with 1,502 votes. John P. Roberts was the runner...

Apr 04, 2023

First Nations police services say Ottawa's underfunding amounts to discrimination

The association representing all 36 stand-alone First Nations police services in Canada is backing a human rights complaint alleging Ottawa's "deliberate" underfunding of policing in their communities...

Apr 03, 2023

Northern MP calls Liberal budget 'reckless'

Desneth-Missinippi-Churchill River MP Gary Vidal is calling the 2023-2024 federal budget reckless. "Just simply the amount of spending," he said. "If you go back to 2015, when the Liberals came to pow...

Mar 29, 2023

Indigenous government-relations firm said more should have been included in federal budget

First Nations groups are lending their voice to what the federal government outlined in the 2023 budget earlier this week. The budget was released by Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland on Tuesday and ...

Mar 29, 2023

Federal budget addresses health care, dental plan, ‘grocery rebate’

As was the case a week earlier in the Saskatchewan budget, health care was one of the main focuses when the federal budget was released Tuesday.The budget is calling for spending of nearly $491 billio...

Mar 28, 2023