Tag Archives: Politics

The first Indigenous head of the Canadian Bar Association was a law school student in his mid-20s when he met his grandfather and learned he'd survived a "horrible" existence at a residential school i...

The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 4:00 a.m. ET on Sunday June 6, 2021. In Canada, the provinces are reporting 374,245 new vaccinations administered for a total of 25,763,939 ...

Former Alabama Gov. John Patterson, who entered politics as a reformer after his father's assassination but was criticized for failing to protect the Freedom Riders from angry white mobs, has died. He...

CAIRO (AP) - A ballistic missile fired by Yemen's Houthi rebels on Saturday killed at least 14 people in a government-held city, including a 5-year-old girl, an official said, as a U.S. envoy to the c...

Pope Francis met with two Canadian Cardinals on Saturday amid mounting pressure on the Catholic Church to take responsibility for Canada's residential school system, though it's not known what was dis...

Canada is proceeding with its plan to tax technology giants next year even as the world's wealthiest democracies proposed a new global tax framework that includes plans to impose a levee on the firms,...

NIAMEY, Niger (AP) - Gunmen killed at least 100 people in a northern Burkina Faso village, the government said Saturday, in what was the country's deadliest attack in years. The attack took place Frid...

LONDON (AP) - The Group of Seven wealthy democracies agreed Saturday to support a global minimum corporate tax of at least 15% in order to deter multinational companies from avoiding taxes by stashing...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's acceptance of an inquiry's finding that Canada committed genocide against Indigenous people could have tremendous legal impact if a court ever weighs Ottawa's ...

CARENTAN, France (AP) - In a small Normandy town where paratroopers landed in the early hours of D-Day, applause broke the silence to honor Charles Shay. He was the only veteran attending a ceremony i...