Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau says some Canadian farmers can now apply for emergency funding to protect their workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The program will subsidize farms...

TORONTO - The difficulty Indigenous people in isolated communities have in serving jail sentences intermittently violates their equality rights, a judge has ruled. In his decision, Ontario court Judge...

OTTAWA - Families and loved ones of those killed in the shootdown of a passenger jet over Tehran are urging Canada to impose so-called Magnitsky sanctions that would target those directly responsible....

MONTREAL - The grand chief of the Atikamekw Nation said he had a positive meeting with Quebec Premier Francois Legault Monday but he's still waiting to see action.Grand Chief Constant Awashish and oth...

OTTAWA - Former Green leader Elizabeth May slammed the New Democrats Monday for refusing to withdraw their candidate in a coming byelection, arguing doing so would allow the first Black woman elected ...

TIRANA, Albania - The U.S Embassy in Tirana on Monday said that Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare has been awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. The announcement posted on the embassy...

WASHINGTON, Wash. - After waging war on Canadian dairy, steel and aluminum, Donald Trump's White House appears to be setting its sights on new foreign trade invaders: blueberries and raspberries. ...

OTTAWA - Since the start of the pandemic, parliamentary budget officer Yves Giroux's office has been pumping out reports about government finances and emergency aid measures at a pace that is as unpre...

OTTAWA - A five-year-old Canadian girl stuck inside Syria after her family was killed in an airstrike is on her way to Canada.  Her family in Toronto says they were told Sunday that the child, kn...

The Buffalo Party is hoping to have a big impact on the provincial election and the future of Canada. It's the first time the party has run. Its members describe themselves as a western independence p...