Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - It's make-it-or-break-it time for the federal government's national price on pollution. The Supreme Court of Canada will decide Thursday whether Ottawa's "carbon tax" is constitutional or if ...

A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit filed by the state of Ohio that tried to get the U.S. Census Bureau to provide data used for drawing congressional and legislative districts ahead of i...

OTTAWA - A new "playbook" being developed to help Canada's top military commander deal with allegations of misconduct involving senior officers appears to provide little in the way of new direction fo...

VANCOUVER - A lawyer for Canada's attorney general says it was entirely reasonable for border officers to question Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou before her arrest at Vancouver's airport in 2018. Diba ...

OTTAWA - Industry Minister Franois-Philippe Champagne sees a future for Canada as a leader in biomanufacturing, including vaccines - but not soon. In a speech Wednesday at the Chamber of Commerce of M...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - In the desert northeast of Las Vegas, residents living along the Nevada-Arizona border would gather on their front porches for bomb parties or ride horses into the fields to watch ...

JERUSALEM - Israel on Wednesday appeared to be barrelling toward another political stalemate after what was shaping up to be its fourth inconclusive election in the past two years. But there were smal...

WASHINGTON - The number of American bald eagles has quadrupled since 2009, with more than 300,000 birds soaring over the lower 48 states, government scientists said in a report Wednesday. The U.S. Fis...

OTTAWA - The Conservatives are calling on the Liberal government to stop funding the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank given the ongoing detention and secret trials of two Canadians in China. In a ...

LONDON - The British government said Wednesday that the national flag should fly on all government buildings, the latest move in a highly visible embrace of the Union Jack by Conservative Prime Minist...