Politics

WINNIPEG — Workers at Manitoba's Crown-owned auto insurance corporation rejected the latest contract offer Monday and remained on strike.

OTTAWA — The federal government is banning WeChat and Kaspersky applications from its phones over security concerns.

VANCOUVER — British Columbia has plans to make Holocaust education mandatory for high school students with additions to Grade 10 curriculum coming in 2025.

WINNIPEG — Encouraging people to reduce their energy consumption through efficiency measures such as heat pumps is the first priority in ensuring Manitoba has enough capacity in its hydroelectric system, Premier Wab Kinew said Monday.

OTTAWA — Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem says fiscal and monetary policy are rowing in opposite directions, making it harder to bring inflation down.

VICTORIA — British Columbia Premier David Eby says it's unfair that Atlantic Canada is being targeted for federal relief on heating bills that won't apply to B.C., after Ottawa announced a three-year pause on carbon pricing for home fuel oil.

REGINA — Premier Scott Moe says Saskatchewan is to stop collecting the carbon tax on natural gas if Ottawa doesn't offer a break, a move that has received unanimous support in the provincial legislature. Moe said Monday that starting Jan.

SURREY, B.C. — Intoxicated people are dying in jail cells in what the British Columbia police watchdog says is an “outdated practice” of holding them for their own protection when they should be getting health care. A report released by Ronald J.

EDMONTON — The Alberta legislature resumed Monday with promises of a referendum on tax increases and more threats to unsheathe a law that the United Conservative Party government says defends the province from federal overreach.

DENVER (AP) — Colorado lawyers seeking to disqualify former President Donald Trump from running for the White House again argued on Monday that his role in the January 2021 assault on the U.S.