Federal Politics

PM creates COVID-19 cabinet committee to deal with novel coronavirus

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has created a new cabinet committee to deal with the novel coronavirus outbreak, which began in China but now has spread around the world. The COVID-19 cabinet c...

Mar 04, 2020

Conservatives needs to start thinking about approach to Indigenous issues: MP

OTTAWA - National protests sparked by the opposition of some Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs to a pipeline project in B.C. are also sparking debate in Conservative circles about the part...

Mar 02, 2020

Manitoba premier hints at possible carbon tax deal with federal government

WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister is hinting at a potential breakthrough with the federal government on a carbon tax. Pallister says federal and provincial senior officials have been in cons...

Feb 25, 2020

Violent ends to past Indigenous protests haunt Trudeau government

OTTAWA - The ghosts of Indigenous protests past have hovered over Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as his government struggles to bring a peaceful end to blockades that have disrupted traffic o...

Feb 23, 2020

Motz says Buffalo Declaration meant to spark solutions to Western alienation

MEDICINE HAT, AB - In a bold manifesto asserting many grievances in Alberta, Medicine Hat MP Glen Motz joined three other MPs from the province Thursday in signing their names to the Buffalo Declarati...

Feb 21, 2020 Medicine Hat MP Glen Motz discusses the Buffalo Declaration Friday afternoon. (CHAT News photo).

Motz one of four Alberta MPs backing Buffalo Declaration

MEDICINE HAT, AB - Medicine Hat MP Glen Motz is one of four Alberta parliamentarians who have signed onto the Buffalo Declaration seeking greater recognition for the province in Confederation.The docu...

Feb 21, 2020

Blockade on CN rail line in Edmonton removed, injunction granted

EDMONTON - A blockade set up on a Canadian National rail line on the western edge of Edmonton in support of Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs was being dismantled - at least temporarily - Wednesday after...

Feb 19, 2020 Supporters of the Wet'suwet'en who are against the LNG pipeline, block a CN Rail line just west of Edmonton on Wednesday February 19, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson

The latest on protests across Canada in support of anti-pipeline demonstrators

Here is the latest news on protests across Canada over a natural gas pipeline project in British Columbia: The Conservatives have put a motion of no-confidence in the government on the House of...

Feb 19, 2020

Trudeau confers with cabinet ministers as rail blockades continue

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was in talks over the weekend with federal cabinet ministers as protesters opposed to a pipeline project in British Columbia continued to halt train service acro...

Feb 18, 2020

E-petition supporting Canadian firearms owners receives record number of signatures

MEDICINE HAT - An online petition initiated by Medicine Hat resident Brad Manysiak and sponsored by Medicine Hat-Cardston-Warner MP Glen Motz, has closed with the largest number of signatures in the h...

Feb 18, 2020 CHATNEWSTODAY