Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - MPs on the House of Commons finance committee have heard a plea from the country's farmers that the government's plans to rewrite tax laws shouldn't make it difficult, again, to pass the fami...

OTTAWA - Infrastructure Minister Catherine McKenna says the federal government is adding almost $1.4 billion to the disaster mitigation and adaptation fund this year to help communities across Canada ...

OTTAWA - Canadian families are seeing the lowest annual increase in federal child benefits since payments were tied to inflation as the pandemic has weighed on price growth over the last year. The gov...

OTTAWA - An organization counting retired military officers and diplomats among its ranks is looking for volunteers to welcome and help integrate any former Afghan interpreters and their families who ...

The yearslong effort by state and local governments in the U.S. to force the pharmaceutical industry to help pay to fix a nationwide opioid addiction and overdose crisis took a major step forward Tues...

OTTAWA - A new poll suggests a majority of Canadians say proof of vaccination should be required of all essential and non-essential travellers. Fifty-eight per cent of respondents to an online survey ...

WASHINGTON - Some questions and answers about the state of the Canada-U.S. border, 16 months into the COVID-19 pandemic: Q: Who can enter Canada from the United States without having to quarantine? A:...

LOS ANGELES - California will hold a recall election Sept. 14 that could remove first-term Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom from office. The date was set by Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis, a Democrat and Newso...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A police official who has run large departments in Maryland and Virginia has been selected as chief of the U.S. Capitol Police in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 insurrection, in which p...

A national strategy to fight anti-Muslim hate across society is one of 61 recommendations released Monday by the National Council of Canadian Muslims ahead of a summit on Islamophobia to be held later...