Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - The Trudeau government is being pressed to approve funding for a made-in-Canada COVID-19 vaccine to lessen the risk Canadians will have to line up and wait on a foreign-made pandemic cure. Fo...

OTTAWA - Both Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Bill Morneau are facing calls to resign - from two federal party leaders - over their involvement in the controversy swirling...

VANCOUVER - New court documents accuse the United States president of "poisoning" the extradition case against a Huawei executive being held in Canada. An application to B.C. Supreme Court b...

OTTAWA - A Ukraine minister says a preliminary analysis of flight recorders has revealed that Iran illegally shot down a passenger jet from his country over Tehran. Yevhenii Yenin, Ukraine's deputy fo...

WASHINGTON - Nearly half of Americans whose families experienced a layoff during the coronavirus pandemic now believe those jobs are lost forever, a new poll shows, a sign of increasing pessimism that...

OTTAWA - The number of asylum claims being filed in Canada continues to rise slightly despite ongoing global travel restrictions. The latest figures from the Immigration Department show 1,500 claims f...

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that a class-action lawsuit taking aim at video lottery terminals cannot proceed, saying Friday the claims made in the case are ...

BEIJING - China ordered the United States on Friday to close its consulate in the western city of Chengdu, ratcheting up a diplomatic conflict at a time when relations have sunk to their lowest level ...

OTTAWA - The Privy Council Office says it is launching an independent review of allegations that Gov. Gen. Julie Payette mistreated past and current employees at Rideau Hall. The CBC reported Tuesday ...

WASHINGTON - Bowing to the coronavirus threat, President Donald Trump on Thursday scrapped plans for a four-night Republican National Convention celebration in Florida that had been set to draw more t...