Tag Archives: Politics

VANCOUVER - Lawyers for Huawei's chief financial officer say they will apply to introduce new evidence in her extradition case next month. A B.C. Supreme Court judge set June 29 and 30 for a hearing o...

OTTAWA - The Crown is seeking a life sentence for a teenager who pleaded guilty to terrorism-related charges including possession of explosive material and counselling someone to detonate a bomb. The ...

OTTAWA - The Canadian Armed Forces is reporting minimal progress in its drive to increase the number of women in uniform over the past five years - a task experts say has been made even harder followi...

OTTAWA - Plans for Canada's foreign affairs minister to take his second international trip in less than a month have raised questions around what's allowed for those in quarantine and a discrepancy be...

OTTAWA - Britain's trade minister says his country expects to kick-start talks on a free-trade pact with Canada in the fall and suggests it might differ in scope from what is now in place. Ranil Jayaw...

OTTAWA - The Canadian government should not be part of any further wrongful extradition of Hassan Diab regardless of the outcome of a looming French Supreme Court ruling, his lawyer said Wednesday. Do...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Two senior Trump administration officials defended their actions during the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol in testimony before Congress on Wednesday, with former acting Defense Secr...

WASHINGTON - Political "brinksmanship" in Michigan risks allowing Enbridge Inc. to abandon plans for a $500-million tunnel that would protect an ecologically sensitive Great Lakes waterway from the co...

WASHINGTON (AP) - House Republicans ousted Rep. Liz Cheney from her post as the chamber's No. 3 GOP leader on Wednesday, punishing her after she repeatedly rebuked former President Donald Trump for hi...

BENI, Congo (AP) - When Shekinah was working as a nurse's aide in northeastern Congo in January 2019, she said, she was offered a job from a World Health Organization doctor at double her salary - in ...