Politics

EDMONTON — Alberta’s two political contenders hammered each other on the issue of trust in the provincial election campaign's lone debate Thursday.

EDMONTON — Alberta's ethics commissioner says United Conservative Premier Danielle Smith undermined democracy and broke conflict-of-interest rules by intervening in a criminal case and pressuring her attorney general to "make it go away.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island Gov. Daniel McKee signed a bill into law Thursday that would let state funds be used to pay for health insurance plans that cover state workers and Medicaid recipients seeking abortions.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia fired 30 cruise missiles against different parts of Ukraine early Thursday in the latest nighttime test of Ukrainian air defenses, which shot down 29 of them, officials said.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota Democratic Party leaders met in a closed executive session over Zoom on Thursday evening to discuss a rule change that would permanently ban people involved in violence from party activities, just days after chaos broke o

EDMONTON — United Conservative Leader Danielle Smith says a party candidate who compared transgender students in schools to feces in food wouldn't sit in her caucus if elected on May 29.

WASHINGTON — The Indigenous band in Wisconsin that's trying to shut down the Line 5 pipeline got a chilly reception Thursday from a federal court judge who is dismayed they aren't doing more to help Enbridge Inc. avoid an ecological disaster.

LANGLEY, B.C. — The latest illicit drug overdose numbers in British Columbia are "profoundly troubling," says Premier David Eby, lamenting the deaths of 206 more people in communities across the province last month.

VANCOUVER — The B.C. government says it's providing $11 million in grant funding to a non-profit in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside aimed at training and empowering tenants of single-room occupancy hotels.

MADISON, Wis.