Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - The law extending the federal government's emergency wage subsidy for employers hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown made it through the Senate Monday. The package passed by the Ho...

Quebec Public Security Minister Genevieve Guilbault urged vacationers in the popular tourist region of Gaspe on Monday to show some respect. The minister made the comments after a member of ...

OTTAWA - An Alberta senator is urging Ottawa to fund a Canadian company so it can develop a domestic COVID-19 vaccine to lessen the risk Canadians will have wait in a line on a foreign-made pandemic c...

OTTAWA - The federal government agreed to pay no more than $543.5 million as part of a deal to have the WE organization run a student-volunteer program that was budgeted to spend hundreds of mill...

HALIFAX - People are gathering at a Halifax park today to demand a public inquiry into the Nova Scotia mass shootings. The gathering at Victoria Park comes less than...

OTTAWA - The Royal Canadian Navy's deputy commander has responded to a series of online posts criticizing the military's plan to drop the term "seaman" by warning that there is no place in the force f...

WASHINGTON - With the November election 100 days away, more Americans say the country is heading in the wrong direction than at any previous point in Donald Trump's presidency, putting the incumbent i...

Davud Hanci would tell inmates to treat their time as valuable when he was working as a chaplain in Alberta prisons and jails. The imam tried to follow his own advice during the nearly three years he ...

PORTLAND, Ore. - Thousands of protesters gathered outside the federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon, into the early hours of Saturday shooting fireworks at the building as plumes of tear gas, dispens...

HALIFAX - Premier Stephen McNeil says if panellists leading a review into Nova Scotia's recent mass shooting need more powers, he expects they will request them from his government. The Liberal l...