Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada has upheld the conviction of a youth found guilty of sexually assaulting another teenager in a case involving alcohol and capacity to consent. In its ruling Friday...

OTTAWA - Rona Ambrose says she had no idea it would take so long and require such determination to see that new judges are properly trained in sexual assault law.Four years and three attempts later, B...

MINNEAPOLIS - A federal grand jury has indicted the four former Minneapolis police officers involved in George Floyd's arrest and death, accusing them of wilfully violating the Black man's constitutio...

WASHINGTON - Justin Trudeau stopped well short Friday of endorsing efforts to lift the veil on the trade secrets behind COVID-19 vaccines, insisting instead that Canada is already doing plenty to impr...

NEW DELHI - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi faced growing pressure Friday to impose a strict nationwide lockdown, despite the economic pain it will exact, as a startling surge in coronavirus cases...

BRUSSELS - Carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion dropped 10% in the European Union last year amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to estimates from the EU's statistical office. Euro...

LONDON - Britain's governing Conservative Party made further inroads in the north of England on Friday, winning a special election in the post-industrial town of Hartlepool for a parliamentary seat th...

PORTO, Portugal - European Union leaders and their large following of diplomats and advisers met Friday in Portugal for two days of in-person talks, signalling their belief that the threat from COVID-...

OTTAWA - Canada's labour market lost 207,000 jobs last month as a spike in COVID-19 variant cases led to renewed public health restrictions and raised concerns about longer-term economic consequences ...

OTTAWA - A new survey from Proof Strategies suggests it's not only Canada's national vaccine advisers who have a "preferred" vaccine.The survey of 1,500 people taken during the first three days of May...