Tag Archives: Politics

Quebec Premier Francois Legault is moving three cities, including the provincial capital, into lockdown Thursday following a sharp rise in COVID-19 infections. Schools and non-essential businesses are...

VANCOUVER - Pharmacies were given short notice about Wednesday's rollout of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in the Lower Mainland for those aged 55 to 65, says the president of the British Columbia Pharmac...

RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territory - A popular Palestinian leader imprisoned by Israel has registered his own parliamentary list in May elections, his supporters said Wednesday, in a last-minute shakeup ...

Microsoft won a nearly $22 billion contract to supply U.S. Army combat troops with its augmented reality headsets. Microsoft and the Army separately announced the deal Wednesday. The technology is bas...

VANCOUVER - A lawyer for Meng Wanzhou says payments between a Huawei affiliate and an HSBC client that were cleared in American dollars do not give the United States jurisdiction to charge the executi...

OTTAWA - Opposition members shut down a parliamentary committee hearing Wednesday after the Liberal government once again refused to let a political aide appear to answer questions about the now-dead ...

OTTAWA - Tensions over anti-Semitism and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict persist within the NDP ahead of next week's policy convention, threatening to divide New Democrats and overshadow domestic pol...

OTTAWA - A parliamentary committee is ordering the Public Health Agency of Canada to turn over all documents related to the firing of two scientists from Canada's highest-security laboratory and the e...

OTTAWA - The 2021 flu season will go down in history as the epidemic that never was. By this time of the year, Canada has normally logged an average of more than 43,000 confirmed cases of influenza. B...

WASHINGTON - U.S. President Joe Biden lifted the veil Wednesday on a broad and ambitious $2 trillion in infrastructure spending but Canadian businesses, contractors and suppliers were left still wonde...