Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - Canada's languid vaccination efforts have no chance of improvement this week with just 70,200 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine scheduled to start arriving. Provinces and territories have ...

OTTAWA - The Canadian Civil Liberties Association is questioning Ottawa's move to require hotel quarantines for international travellers, saying it may harm lower-income Canadians and infringe on citi...

The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 10:30 p.m. ET on Sunday Feb. 7, 2021.In Canada, the provinces are reporting 11,885 new vaccinations administered for a total of 1,076,130 do...

Canada hit more unwanted firsts in its battle against the COVID-19 pandemic on Sunday, as Quebec became the first province to surpass 10,000 deaths and Toronto reported Ontario's first case of a varia...

More than a dozen federal lawmakers from all parties are calling for the 2022 Winter Olympics to be moved outside China, citing a "genocidal campaign" by the state against Uighurs and other Muslim min...

WASHINGTON - Former Secretary of State George P. Shultz, a titan of American academia, business and diplomacy who spent most of the 1980s trying to improve Cold War relations with the Soviet Union and...

OTTAWA - The federal government has allocated $30 million over the past 15 years to sustain charitable foundations created by governors general once they leave office. But Prime Minister Justin Trudea...

SAINT-HERBLAIN, France - French pharmaceutical startup Valneva had big news in September: a government contract for 60 million doses of its coronavirus vaccine candidate. The buyer? The United Kingdom...

YANGON, Myanmar - As enthusiastic crowds of tens of thousands marched through the streets of Myanmar's biggest city on Sunday to protest last week's coup ousting Aung San Suu Kyi's elected government,...

BERLIN - A snowstorm and strong winds pounded northern and western Germany on Sunday, forcing trains to cancel trips and leading to hundreds of vehicle crashes. Police said 28 people were injured on i...