Politics

SALEM, Ore.

EDMONTON — Alberta is planning to dismantle its provincewide health provider and may sell off its publicly owned continuing-care facilities, say leaked cabinet briefing documents released by the Opposition NDP.

CALGARY — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is set to share a stage in January with an American right-wing news commentator who has been accused of defending a white-supremacist theory and who spread misinformation about the war in Ukraine.

OTTAWA — Indigenous leaders from British Columbia have called on the federal government to stand by plans to transition away from open-net salmon farms, but an industry spokesman suggested the leaders were wading into political waters.

OTTAWA — The national infrastructure program to install electric chargers for passenger vehicles is too concentrated in a small number of provinces and has no data to show where the biggest gaps are, a new audit says.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday will meet in Belvidere, Illinois, with the head of the United Auto Workers union, and the two leaders are expected to highlight plans to reopen an auto factory that Stellantis wanted to close.

OTTAWA — Tetiana Bodak's mind flooded with questions one year ago when she picked up the phone and learned her son had been kidnapped from their home in the Kherson region of Ukraine.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — The premiers of British Columbia and Newfoundland and Labrador have agreed to share information on developing the hydrogen energy sector in both provinces in a bid to become more efficient.

Canada's tech community is applauding a proposal by the Alberta government that would allow more workers to use the "software engineer" title.

OTTAWA — As the federal government faces mounting pressure to address a national housing crisis, it announced on Tuesday that it would allow more than 2,800 homes to be built on six of its surplus properties across Canada.