Tag Archives: Politics

WASHINGTON - Senior officials from Canada, the United States and Mexico will meet virtually next week for the first Free Trade Commission meeting of the USMCA era. International Trade Minister Mary Ng...

Bloc Qubcois Leader Yves-Franois Blanchet said Friday he sees an opening to begin the next federal election campaign on Aug. 16 if the COVID-19 pandemic is under control. That timeline would ensure th...

BOSTON (AP) - A former Massachusetts mayor first elected at the age of 23 by touting himself as a successful entrepreneur was convicted Friday of stealing money from investors in his start-up to bankr...

OTTAWA - The head of the country's largest private-sector union says Parliament should raise the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour, and possibly put future increases into the hands of an independen...

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says he kept his distance in a debate over the fate of two outspoken backbenchers but believes his United Conservative caucus made the right decision to expel t...

OTTAWA - The number of planes landing in Canada carrying passengers with COVID-19 was cut by more than half in the two weeks after the federal government barred incoming flights from India and Pakista...

MONTREAL - The brother of an Indigenous woman subjected to insults as she lay dying in a Quebec hospital testified Friday he was shocked at her condition when he visited the medical facility last Sept...

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada has clarified the legal interpretation of consent in restoring the convictions of a common-law couple for sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl during a camping t...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Republicans vaulted Rep. Elise Stefanik into the ranks of House leadership Friday, electing an ardent Donald Trump defender in hopes of calming their searing civil war over the depos...

As the six weeks of the spring sitting have gone on, the barbs traded back and forth in the Legislative Assembly have been getting sharper. In the past week, the speaker has had to stand several times...