Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - The number of planes landing in Canada carrying passengers with COVID-19 was cut by more than half in the two weeks after the federal government barred incoming flights from India and Pakista...

MONTREAL - The brother of an Indigenous woman subjected to insults as she lay dying in a Quebec hospital testified Friday he was shocked at her condition when he visited the medical facility last Sept...

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada has clarified the legal interpretation of consent in restoring the convictions of a common-law couple for sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl during a camping t...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Republicans vaulted Rep. Elise Stefanik into the ranks of House leadership Friday, electing an ardent Donald Trump defender in hopes of calming their searing civil war over the depos...

As the six weeks of the spring sitting have gone on, the barbs traded back and forth in the Legislative Assembly have been getting sharper. In the past week, the speaker has had to stand several times...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A bomb ripped through a mosque in northern Kabul during Friday prayers, killing 12 worshippers, and wounding 15, Afghan police said. No one immediately claimed responsibility...

CALGARY - A judge has dismissed an attempt to quash the United Conservative government's inquiry into whether foreign groups have conspired against Alberta's oil industry. Court of Queen's Bench Justi...

HALIFAX - Canada should respond to a U.N. committee examining whether it failed to protect Mi'kmaq fishers from racist violence, even though the independence of committee members can be questioned, a ...

The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 4:00 a.m. ET on Friday, May 14, 2021. In Canada, the provinces are reporting 334,975 new vaccinations administered for a total of 17,239,587...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Philadelphia's top health official was compelled to resign Thursday after the city's mayor said he learned human remains from the 1985 bombing of the headquarters of a Black organi...