Tag Archives: Politics

MEXICO CITY (AP) - For years, transgender activist Roshell Terranova protested in the streets and knocked on the doors of Mexico's Congress to make the demands of the country's LGBTQ community known. ...

Quebec Economy Minister Pierre Fitzgibbon has resigned, Premier Franois Legault announced Wednesday, after the province's ethics commissioner called for him to be suspended from the legislature over a...

OTTAWA - Canada's veterans ombudsman is adding her voice to long-standing calls for the federal government to create a dedicated peer-support program for those who have experienced sexual trauma while...

OTTAWA - Federal Justice Minister David Lametti says he is open to considering different legal avenues when it comes to residential schools with burial grounds - in particular the possibility of prote...

OTTAWA - An Alberta city has become the first in the country to have ended chronic homelessness, just as municipal leaders push the federal government to help do the same countrywide. Medicine Hat fir...

OTTAWA - The discovery of an unmarked burial site at a Kamloops, B.C. residential school has sent shock waves across the world, which experts say will have a lasting negative impact on Canada's reputa...

OTTAWA - Canada is doubling its direct cash commitment to help buy COVID-19 vaccines for the global sharing program known as COVAX but isn't sending any actual doses this month despite a desperate ple...

JERUSALEM (AP) - Isaac Herzog, a veteran politician and the scion of a prominent Israeli family, was elected president Tuesday, a largely ceremonial role that is meant to serve as the nation's moral c...

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - Jordan has referred the cases of two former senior officials accused of taking part in a foreign plot linked to the half-brother of King Abdullah II to a national security court, ...

The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 4:00 a.m. ET on Wednesday, June 2, 2021. In Canada, the provinces are reporting 307,826 new vaccinations administered for a total of 24,169,...