Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau says Ottawa is looking at expanding the categories of essential workers allowed to travel across the Canada-U.S. border. He told a parliamentary committe...

VANCOUVER - A medical director at the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control says the number of active COVID-19 cases that are variants of concern is higher than what has been publicly reported i...

VANCOUVER - Canadian officials have new leverage as they urge Washington to negotiate a solution to the long-standing dispute over U.S. duties on softwood lumber, Canada's ambassador to the United Sta...

CONCORD, N.H. - A former youth detention centre worker accused of responding to a bruised and crying teenager's rape allegations by saying, "Look little fella, that just doesn't happen," was arrested ...

OTTAWA - Advocates are calling for fundamental reforms to the process for reporting sexual violence in the Canadian Armed Forces, deeming decades-old patterns of misconduct a "national embarrassment" ...

OTTAWA - The head of the Canadian Museum of History has resigned following reported allegations of workplace harassment at the national institution. Museum CEO Mark O'Neill has been on a medical leave...

OTTAWA - The international vaccine-sharing program known as COVAX says it has reached 100 countries with vaccines as of Thursday, though many of the world's poorest nations have still not been able to...

OTTAWA - Bloc Qubcois Leader Yves-Franois Blanchet is calling on the federal government to recharge Quebec's forestry sector with an eye to its energy potential. The Bloc is laying out a slate of prop...

As Ontario implemented a stay-at-home order Thursday and Quebec announced it will expand some curfews to tackle increasing COVID-19 cases, the Canadian Medical Association said continually changing re...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. government picked up nearly 19,000 children travelling alone across the Mexican border in March, authorities said Thursday, the largest monthly number ever recorded and a major t...