Politics

WINNIPEG — Manitoba New Democrats are promising to ensure more government contract work goes to bidders and workers within the province.

Quebec MP Alain Rayes says he won't run again for federal office, a year after leaving the Conservative Party.

WINNIPEG — Manitoba Progressive Conservatives are promising to phase out the province's payroll tax over eight years if re-elected Oct.

TORONTO — A timeline of key developments in the Toronto Transit Commission wireless network access saga: Dec.

LUNENBURG, N.S. — The Nova Scotia government has purchased a motel to house health-care workers recruited to work on the province’s South Shore.

TORONTO — Ontario's new minister of municipal affairs and housing suggests the province may not move forward with a review of six regions with both upper- and lower-tier municipal governments.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Republicans trying to recapture the U.S. Senate majority have the candidate they want in Pennsylvania. Now they just need David McCormick to run.

The first openly transgender person to run for the federal Conservatives warns that a policy adopted by the party over the weekend could harm gender-diverse children if it ever becomes law.

CALGARY — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she's asked her health minister, as well as her children and family services minister, to "do a full assessment" of an E. coli outbreak linked to Calgary daycares.

OTTAWA — Mournful tributes are pouring in after the death of Monique Bégin, a former cabinet minister and academic who died Friday at the age of 87.