Politics

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia’s immigration support services need bolstering to meet the growing needs of a record number of newcomers to the province, says an internal review.

NEW YORK (AP) — Miami Mayor Francis Suarez claimed on Friday that he has qualified for next week's Republican presidential debate and would become the ninth White House hopeful to meet the fundraising and polling thresholds required to participate in

TORONTO — First Nations leaders from across Ontario are calling for Housing Minister Steve Clark's resignation or his removal from cabinet over his handling of changes to protected Greenbelt land.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's controversial commission for examining Russian influence in Poland that is seen as targeting the opposition ahead of Oct.

WINNIPEG — Manitoba's Opposition New Democrats are promising rebates for people who purchase electric vehicles. NDP Leader Wab Kinew says if his party wins the election set for Oct.

OTTAWA — Canada is again joining the U.S. and Britain in sanctioning officials accused of corruption, this time involving Russia's justice system.

OTTAWA — High housing prices have forced many Canadians to accept that they may never be able to afford buying their own home.

HALIFAX — Two years ago, Scott Hutchins was on his way to work in Halifax when his bus unexpectedly stopped. He hopped off to find traffic blocked by a commotion in a downtown park — there were police, protesters and the buzz of a chainsaw.

MARTOCK, N.S. — Tera Sisco reaches into a drawer, pulls out a sheet of paper and reads a sentence prepared for her son's funeral after he died in Nova Scotia's historic flooding in late July. "I'm not done being Colton's Mom," it says.

Hundreds of properties were ordered to evacuate late Thursday under threat from a wildfire near the city of West Kelowna, B.C., which has been placed under a state of emergency.