Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - Canada's justice minister is rejecting charges that the federal government is perpetuating mental-illness stereotypes by delaying a planned expansion of medical assistance in dying. Arif Vira...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - The Missouri Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected the latest attempt by Republican state officials to block taxpayer dollars from going to Planned Parenthood, citing a failur...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Former Congressman Pete Hoekstra has been officially recognized by the national Republican party as the Michigan GOP chairman in a vote that also affirmed that Kristina Karamo wa...

OTTAWA - The Assembly of First Nations is warning it could take the Liberal government to court over its proposed privacy and artificial intelligence bill. And former tech executive Jim Balsillie told...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Special counsel Jack Smith urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to let former President Donald Trump's 2020 election interference case proceed to trial without further delay. Pr...

OTTAWA - The federal carbon price will increase April 1 to $85 per tonne, up from $60. The quarterly rebates associated with it - which the Liberals rebranded Wednesday as the "Canada Carbon Rebate" -...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House on Wednesday announced that Palestinians living in the U.S. will be shielded from deportation as the Israel-Hamas war continues, citing "significantly deteriorated" c...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden avoided criminal charges around his handling of classified documents in part because of his answers during a lengthy interview with the special counsel investigat...

MONTREAL - The last psychiatrist to speak to a mentally ill Quebec man before he fatally stabbed a provincial police sergeant last March had a particularly difficult phone call with him days before th...

ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - A critical pump station that came dangerously close to being overwhelmed by floodwaters in British Columbia in November 2021 will receive almost $80 million in upgrades to provide f...