Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - Animal suffering won't be considered when a Health Canada agency next reviews licences for poisons used to kill predators, the department has ruled. In a decision released this week, Health C...

OTTAWA - Chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam says Canada is in "a very delicate period" as case counts for fast-spreading COVID-19 variants tick upward across the country, even while overall n...

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden's administration announced Tuesday that it is moving to expand access to COVID-19 vaccines, freeing up more doses for states and beginning to distribute them to retail...

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times eastern): 7:30 p.m. B.C. is reporting another 429 cases of COVID-19 and eight deaths, bringing to 1,218 the number of fatalities linked to...

The United States on Tuesday declared the military roundup of civilian leaders in Myanmar a coup, and said it would look for ways to impose more sanctions or other penalties on the country's military ...

WASHINGTON - Donald Trump endangered the lives of all members of Congress when he aimed a mob of supporters "like a loaded cannon" at the U.S. Capitol, House Democrats said Tuesday in making their mos...

NEW YORK - The White House speechwriter who helped President Barack Obama work on his response to the Charleston church massacre in June 2015 has a book deal. Cody Keenan's memoir is set around the ti...

OTTAWA - It had been a while since Alana Fiks had been able to open her shop in Winnipeg when she spoke about the impact of COVID-19. The co-owner of Black Market Provisions, which sells food and hous...

The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 4 a.m. ET on Monday Feb. 2, 2021. In Canada, the provinces are reporting 18,290 new vaccinations administered for a total of 975,519 doses g...

A decades-old debate over development in an important wildlife corridor in an Alberta mountain community is to be back before council next week. Plans for two projects, which make up about 80 per cent...