Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - The National Advisory Committee on Immunization adjusted Tuesday its advice for the use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine to say that it can now be given to seniors. On March 1, NACI said the...

NIAMEY, Niger - Gunmen on motorcycles attacked a group of civilians returning from market day in a volatile corner of Niger, leaving at least 58 people dead and then burning granaries to the ground, t...

TORONTO - Officials in many Canadian provinces are tightening anti-pandemic restrictions to keep St. Patrick's Day from becoming a COVID-19 super-spreader event. Amid worries about a third pandemic wa...

WASHINGTON - Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized influence operations to help Donald Trump in last November's presidential election, according to a declassified intelligence assessment that fo...

EDMONTON - Alberta's energy minister is defending her government's attack on a children's movie about Bigfoot that she says is "quite offensive" and carries an inaccurate anti-oil message. Sonya Savag...

OTTAWA - The federal government is looking beyond COVID-19 to prepare for the next large-scale calamity - be it another pandemic, a tsunami or cyberattack. In a notice posted Tuesday, Defence Research...

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole reversed his predecessor's position on foreign aid spending Tuesday, saying that if elected, a Conservative government wouldn't cut that budget. But he said h...

MONTREAL - A joint investigation by three professional orders into the high number of COVID-19-related deaths at a Montreal long-term care home says management was more to blame than employees. The re...

LONDON - National Westminster Bank has been charged with violating money laundering laws in relation to 365 million pounds ($505 million) deposited into a single customer's accounts over a period of f...

OTTAWA - Canada and Germany have signed an agreement to team up on green energy innovation and trade, with an eye to hydrogen as the market for the low-carbon fuel heats up. Signed Tuesday by the two ...