Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - The federal government is looking at taking a phased approach to welcoming back international visitors as pandemic restrictions loosen, focusing on case counts globally as part of decision-ma...

EDMONTON - A judge has ruled that the religious freedoms of an Alberta pastor who is on trial for violating COVID-19 regulations were not violated. Pastor James Coates made a charter application in re...

OTTAWA - Sweeping updates to the Broadcasting Act will not cover pornography or sexually exploitive content online, the federal heritage minister says. Steven Guilbeault told the House of Commons ethi...

Cities in Eastern Canada are adapting their heat wave-response plans, as pandemic restrictions have closed many places where people normally go to beat the heat. In Ottawa, where a heat warning was is...

Indigenous leaders are expressing disappointment and frustration over comments by Pope Francis they say fell short of an apology for the Catholic Church's role in residential schools. Perry Bellegarde...

OTTAWA - Canada's border agency has an "urgent need" to hire a global technology firm to help develop a biometric strategy in response to rapidly evolving issues including COVID-19. The Canada Border ...

IQALUIT, Nunavut - Travellers who have received both doses of COVID-19 vaccine will soon be exempt from a 14-day stay in Nunavut's government-run isolation hotels. Starting next Monday, fully vaccinat...

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times eastern): 6:20 p.m. B.C. health officials say 72 per cent of all residents aged 12 and up have received their first dose of COVID-19 vacci...

BERLIN (AP) - The German military says it has found a solution for an unusual logistics problem its troops in Afghanistan face: a glut of beer. Defense Ministry spokeswoman Christina Routsi said Monda...

PARIS (AP) - Google is being fined 220 million euros ($268 million) by France's antitrust watchdog for abusing its 'dominant' position in online advertising. Practices used by the search engine giant ...