Tag Archives: Politics

Former prime minister Brian Mulroney is recovering after undergoing an emergency surgery on Friday. A family spokesman says the "urgent procedure" was a "complete success" and Mulroney was released fr...

OTTAWA - Alfonso Gagliano, a former Liberal cabinet minister who played a key role in the sponsorship scandal of the early 2000s, has died.He was 78.His daughter Imma Gagliano confirmed his death, whi...

MONTREAL - The first shipments of the COVID-19 vaccine have arrived in Canada. Some of the country's initial 30,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines touched down on Sunday night, Prime Minister J...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Now that they're safely back in Florida, Rose and Perry Cohen are looking forward to one of the joys of retirement: an extended lunch with friends. Extended, at least, in the 2020 s...

OTTAWA - When now-retired major-general Guy Tousignant handed over command of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Rwanda 1995, Canada had been involved in virtually every UN mission over the pr...

WASHINGTON - It didn't take the Supreme Court long to make short work of what President Donald Trump called "the big one." And as the court on Friday rejected a Texas-based lawsuit to overturn the ele...

WASHINGTON - Vandals tore down a Black Lives Matter banner and sign from two historic Black churches in downtown Washington and set the banner ablaze as nighttime clashes Saturday between pro-Donald T...

WASHINGTON - A subpoena seeking documents from Hunter Biden asked for information related to more than two dozen entities, including Ukraine gas company Burisma, according to a person familiar with a ...

PORTAGE, Mich. - The first of many freezer-packed COVID-19 vaccine vials made their way to distribution sites across the United States on Sunday, as the nation's pandemic deaths approached the horrify...

VICTORIA - A woman's complaints about being asked about a "walk of shame" by a Saanich police officer after reporting an alleged sexual assault has prompted British Columbia's police complaints commis...