Tag Archives: Politics

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's police watchdog agency is asking its British Columbia equivalent to assist in probing whether officers broke the law when evidence was destroyed in the case of a wrongfully con...

MONTREAL - At age 91, Marc Lalonde still remembers the shock he felt on Oct. 17, 1970 when Pierre Laporte's body was discovered in the trunk of a car at an airport south of Montreal, a week after he h...

Several provinces are looking to ramp up COVID-19 restrictions as new hotspots crop up across the map, pushing Canada's caseload closer to the 200,000 mark. Canada's chief public health officer says t...

OTTAWA - The employment insurance system absorbed almost 1.3 million people in the last three weeks, new figures show, as a key COVID-19 benefit wound down.A breakdown of applications for the simplifi...

OTTAWA - A man accused of roaming while heavily armed near the residences of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Governor General this summer will be back in court next month.Corey Hurren made a bri...

QUEBEC - The Quebec government has asked for an investigation that could lead to the removal of the embattled chief of the provincial police, the province's public security minister said Friday. Marti...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden faced inquisitive voters on separate stages in different cities in a substitute for the debate that was meant to be. Here's how some ...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. and Russia on Friday rejected each other's proposals for potentially salvaging the last remaining legal constraint on their strategic nuclear forces. President Vladimir Putin cal...

OTTAWA - The exiled opposition leader of Belarus holds Canada in her heart for its support of her embattled country's pro-democracy movement, Foreign Affairs Minister Franois-Philippe Champagne said F...

MOSCOW - Kyrgyzstan's prime minister became the acting head of state Friday in the wake of the president's resignation amid turmoil sparked by a disputed parliamentary election. Supporters of newly ap...