Tag Archives: Politics

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Los Angeles County will again require masks be worn indoors in the nation's largest county, even by those vaccinated against the coronavirus, while the University of California syst...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden said Thursday that the U.S. will bolster security at its embassy in Haiti following last week's assassination of that country's president, but sending American tr...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia's mental health and addictions minister has announced a new policy that will expand access to safer prescription drugs for people at risk of overdose and death from toxic ...

CHEMAINUS, B.C. - A First Nation community on Vancouver Island says it is continuing its investigations after a newsletter circulating online said it had found more than 160 unmarked and undocumented ...

VICTORIA - The federal government says cruise ships will be allowed back in Canadian waters in November, but they must follow public health requirements. Transport Minister Omar Alghabra said the proh...

OTTAWA - Canada's cruise ship ban will end in November, a few months ahead of schedule. Cruise ships haven't been allowed in Canadian waters or ports for more than a year because of COVID-19 and the b...

SEATTLE (AP) - A judge ordered former Seattle Seahawks and San Francisco 49ers star Richard Sherman released from jail without bail Thursday following his arrest on suspicion of trying to break in to ...

OTTAWA - Retired general Jonathan Vance, former chief of the defence staff, has been charged with obstruction of justice related to an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct. The Canadian...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California lawmakers on Thursday approved the first state-funded guaranteed income plan in the U.S., $35 million for monthly cash payments to qualifying pregnant people and y...

FREDERICTON - Provinces in Atlantic Canada have had to dispose of thousands of doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in recent weeks after demand dried up and they expired. Prince Edward Island...