Tag Archives: Politics

LONDON, Ont. - Ontario will add more beds to its beleaguered jails, which are bursting with inmates, solicitor general Michael Kerzner said Monday. The province intends to add several hundred spots th...

OTTAWA - Canada's privacy commissioner is teaming up with his U.K. counterpart to investigate a data breach discovered last year at 23andMe. Philippe Dufresne's office says the joint investigation wit...

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) - Jurors in Hunter Biden's gun trial began deliberating Monday whether the president's son is guilty of federal firearms charges over a revolver he bought in 2018 when prosecutor...

CALGARY - As crews work to fix a massive pipeline break, Calgary's mayor says citizens are stepping up to draw down on water use to prevent city taps from running dry. Mayor Jyoti Gondek had asked Cal...

OTTAWA - Canada's former top judge is ending her term on a high-level Hong Kong court, saying she has faith in that institution while keeping mum on democratic backsliding in the city-state. Beverley ...

OTTAWA - Canada's leading research universities warn that a proposed foreign influence transparency registry could have an unintended "chilling effect" on international partnerships, meaning Canada mi...

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Rayna Dove kept careful notes about her attempts to move out of the shelter in downtown St. John's, N.L., where her mother says she was "living in fear." On Dec. 27, 2021, Dove's fe...

CALGARY - Calgary's mayor is apologizing for failing to communicate better with residents as the city continues to urge water conservation until a major feeder main that failed last week is repaired. ...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government plans to take the first legislative step Monday toward increasing the inclusion rate on capital gains. Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland flagged the timing Sunday, say...

GLACE BAY, N.S. - The crew of a Halifax-based Royal Canadian Navy ship is formally honouring the memory of a soldier from Cape Breton who died in Afghanistan nearly 14 years ago. Sgt. Jimmy MacNeil of...