WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government is planning to loosen some of the rules that control what it can say and do during pre-election periods, and the Opposition NDP says that changes are unfair.
WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government is keeping a tight leash on spending and delaying some promised tax cuts as it prepares for the economic effects of a stock-market plunge and COVID-19.
WINNIPEG — Manitoba’s Progressive Conservative government has changed course and has agreed to bring in its own carbon tax, but is cutting the provincial sales tax as well.
WINNIPEG — Manitoba’s Progressive Conservative government is going to spend part of its second term looking for ways to get people off welfare and opening up opportunities for private companies in areas such as liquor sales and provincial parks.
WINNIPEG — Manitoba’s major political parties all cut their spending in the last election campaign, despite having higher donation and expense limits.
WINNIPEG — Manitoba’s Progressive Conservative government says its plan to tackle what it calls a top-heavy public sector includes a 15 per cent cut in management levels.
OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says the fact his party is now in a leadership race doesn’t mean the Liberal government will get a free ride in the House of Commons.
WINNIPEG — Leadership reviews in Manitoba politics are rare, but 2020 will see members of two parties vote on whether their respective leaders should get to keep their jobs.
WINNIPEG — A Manitoba union accused by the governing Progressive Conservative party of breaking an election advertising limit has filed paperwork that says its spending was well within the law.
By The Canadian Press OTTAWA — After rejecting calls for his resignation from within his party for weeks, federal Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer announced Thursday that he will step down as soon as his party chooses a successor. "Serving as the leader of the party...
WINNIPEG — Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister — a man not known for shying away from a scrap — is promising an even “bolder” approach in 2020 with his Progressive Conservative government now three months into its second term.
WINNIPEG — Manitoba’s Progressive Conservative government is promising to cut taxes, hire more health-care workers and boost its crime-fighting efforts in the coming year.
