Politics

WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government is hiring new political staff in cabinet ministers' offices and is paying some of them more than what backbench members of the legislature make. The NDP government, which is hiring staff after winning the Oct.

PORT HAWKESBURY, N.S. — The federal government is backing a massive wind-powered hydrogen project in Nova Scotia with a $125-million loan. Sean Fraser, federal minister of housing, infrastructure and communities, was in Port Hawkesbury, N.S.

WINNIPEG — Manitoba Progressive Conservatives are considering changes to the way they choose a party leader, following complaints of missing ballots and a lawsuit after the last contest.

The federal government is delaying a new rule that could make it easier for millions of workers to unionize after business groups challenged it in court.

CALGARY — Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd. says it's untroubled by a draft decree from Mexico's president that would require freight railways to allow passenger service on their tracks.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the House Ethics Committee announced Friday he has filed a resolution to force a vote on expelling Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Voters in Utah’s second congressional district will cast ballots Tuesday in a Thanksgiving-week special election to fill the last remaining vacant seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Ron DeSantis has picked up 10 endorsements in South Carolina from former backers of Sen.

CHERRY BROOK, N.S. — The federal government announced today $2.25 million in funding to honour the legacy of No. 2 Construction Battalion, Canada’s only all-Black unit to serve during the First World War.

OTTAWA — Canada's ambassador to Haiti says he hopes the world will move faster to help the country emerge from a prolonged period of lawlessness that has other Caribbean leaders on edge.