Tag Archives: Politics

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...

RABAT, Morocco - At least 24 workers died on Monday in the northern Moroccan city of Tangier after heavy rains flooded an illegal garment factory, Morocco's state news agency MAP reported. There were ...

WASHINGTON - The United States announced plans Monday to reengage with the much-maligned U.N. Human Rights Council that former President Donald Trump withdrew from almost three years ago, as the Biden...

ROME - Pope Francis urged governments on Monday to use the coronavirus crisis as a revolutionary opportunity to create a world that is more economically and environmentally just - and where basic heal...