Tag Archives: Politics

FREDERICTON - An Acadian man who fought to remain in his home on New Brunswick's eastern shore is being recalled as a symbol of the francophone minority's resistance to unjust expropriation of their l...

EDMONTON - Public protest has persuaded the Alberta government to U-turn on a major section of its economic road map and reinstate a policy that has kept open-pit coal mines out of the Rocky Mountains...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - U.S. Sen. Richard C. Shelby, the Senate's fourth most senior member and a force in Alabama and national politics for more than four decades, announced Monday that he will not seek a...

OTTAWA - Hotel operators seeking to take part in Canada's mandatory three-day quarantine for returning travellers can now access the criteria, though it comes as cold comfort to a battered industry. T...

AUSTIN, Texas - Republican Rep. Ron Wright of Texas, who had lung cancer and was hospitalized after testing positive for COVID-19 last month, has died, his office said Monday. He was 67. Wright died S...

OTTAWA - Those who support expanding access to medical assistance in dying are doing so because they have not grappled with the consequences of medical racism, a disability activist said Monday before...

Several provinces began relaxing COVID-19 restrictions on Monday amid what Canada's chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam described as "hopeful signs of declining COVID-19 activity." Loosened ru...

OTTAWA - Documents given to parliamentarians show federal officials audited at least 127 landlords who received aid through a program designed to ease rent costs for small businesses during the COVID-...

As concerns about internationally identified COVID-19 variants hit closer to home, public health authorities are asking - and increasingly, ordering - people to isolate safely, away from others in the...

LONDON - Like a spy in the night, writer Mick Herron's success has been stealthy. It took a while for the world to catch up with him. A decade after he introduced a crew of flawed secret agents caught...