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Federal officials testified they never approved a $10 million expenditure by Indigenous Languages Commissioner Ronald Ignace for a four-day conference in Ottawa, as an internal audit into the spending continues.

When people run for municipal office, they aren’t auditioning to be constitutional scholars or pundits on the evening news. They are applying for a specific, high-stakes job: managing the city.

A Conservative MP is calling for federal job site inspections to ensure illegal immigrants are not working on taxpayer-funded construction projects, arguing Ottawa has no clear picture of how many undocumented migrants may be employed in subsidized building programs.

Things are finally looking up from my perspective as an old refinery operator who ended up in the science-challenged world of journalism. While the national media obsess over a potential new oil pipeline to the BC coast, Mark Carney’s sort-of-deal with Danielle Smith includes a little-noticed measure allowing Alberta to build more natural gas-fired power production to serve the ...

Alberta's Minister of Transportation, Devin Dreeshen, says the government is working with Calgary police to develop Alberta legislation so it more clearly states the ability for police to impound the vehicles of excessive speeders.