Tag Archives: Politics

HALIFAX - Another chapter in Sable Island's long history of providing rescue services for struggling seafarers may be about to begin. The Royal Canadian Air Force says it is assessing whether to set u...

OTTAWA - The federal government says it ran a budgetary deficit of $268.2 billion through 10 months of its fiscal year as the treasury pumped out more pandemic aid. The deficit from April to January c...

The race and age of jurors has a noticeable effect on trial verdicts, American studies indicate, but Canada has no data allowing similar research here. Experts in Canada said it's imperative to gather...

A lack of data on race, gender or age makes it impossible to know whether systemic jury bias plays a role in who ends up behind bars in Canada - and who doesn't. Experts say the information gap is cru...

YANGON, Myanmar - As Myanmar's military celebrated the annual Armed Forces Day holiday with a parade Saturday in the country's capital, soldiers and police elsewhere killed scores of people while supp...

OTTAWA - Opposition parties panned a plea Friday from the minority Liberal government to speed up passage of a bill aimed at ensuring a federal election could be held safely if need be during the COVI...

The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 4 a.m. ET on Friday, March 26, 2021. In Canada, the provinces are reporting 186,278 new vaccinations administered for a total of 4,580,154 d...

Undocumented workers in Canada fear that getting vaccinated could mean being arrested if someone reports them to police or immigration authorities because of their lack of proper identification, say a...

As COVID-19 vaccine supplies ramp up across the country, most provinces and territories have released details of who can expect to receive a shot in the coming weeks. The military commander handling l...

WASHINGTON - Former President Donald Trump on Thursday defended some of his supporters who rioted at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, saying they posed "zero threat" to the lawmakers who had assembled ther...