Tag Archives: Politics

SAN DIEGO - The families of refugees and their supporters, including 124 elected officials, sent President Joe Biden a letter Tuesday urging him to make good on his promise to boost refugee admissions...

ORLANDO, Fla. - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis pushed back aggressively Tuesday against a "60 Minutes" report that suggested he initially made a deal to distribute COVID-19 vaccines in a South Florida coun...

EDMONTON - Parts of Alberta's proposed curriculum for kindergarten and elementary schoolchildren were copied from other sources without credit, said an expert in plagiarism as the Opposition NDP vowed...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday signalled an end to more than a year of closures in California, announcing that the nation's most populated state plans to lift most coronavirus restrictio...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Arkansas lawmakers on Tuesday made the state the first to ban gender confirming treatments and surgery for transgender youth, enacting the prohibition over the governor's objection...

OTTAWA - Provincial governments are grappling with how to bring the third wave of COVID-19 under control, as the more virulent variants of the virus begin to dominate and younger, healthier people are...

A fourth request has been made to the federal government to get involved in the environmental review of a coal mine proposed for Alberta's Rocky Mountains. Landowners, Indigenous people and environmen...

OTTAWA - Canada's former top civil servant has suggested more might have been done in 2018 to investigate an allegation of sexual misconduct involving Gen. Jonathan Vance, but that officials at the ti...

OTTAWA - The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times eastern): 7:05 p.m. Alberta is reporting 931 new daily cases of COVID-19. The province says 676 variant cases have been identifie...

HALIFAX - A Canadian Coast Guard ship whose original name paid tribute to the controversial founder of Halifax is being renamed to recognize an 18th century peace treaty between a British governor and...