Tag Archives: Politics

WASHINGTON - Lawmakers of both parties raised the prospect Thursday of ousting President Donald Trump from office, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that if he wasn't removed, the House may move for...

HALIFAX - The premier of Nova Scotia says the RCMP must change how they alert the public to dangerous incidents following the high-profile arrest of a gunman who remained at large for 19 hours. Stephe...

VANCOUVER - Marcia Carr returned to nursing during the first wave of the pandemic after four years in retirement and now wants to "hit the ground running" to help vaccinate as many people as possible....

BOSTON - President-elect Joe Biden announced Thursday that he has chosen Boston Mayor Marty Walsh to be his labour secretary, selecting a former union worker who shares Biden's Irish-American backgrou...

WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden has picked Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo to lead the Commerce Department, helping set trade policy and promote U.S. opportunities for growth domestically and o...

OTTAWA - It has been 66 years since Canada and Iran established diplomatic ties. Those had frayed and been mended many times before the crash of a Ukraine International Airlines flight near Tehran kil...

MONTREAL - Civil rights advocates on Thursday expressed concern Quebec's new provincewide curfew is not justified by science and will be enforced in a way that will have a disproportionate impact on r...

OTTAWA - The federal government is pushing back against ongoing American tariffs on Canadian solar products. In a statement today, International Trade Minister Mary Ng calls the tariffs "unwarranted" ...

TORONTO - A consensus appears to have developed that educating reluctant health-care workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19 is better than trying to force them to get the shots. While most of thos...

OTTAWA - The Canadian military's surgeon general says the Canadian Armed Forces have received enough doses of the Moderna vaccine to immunize 1,200 members against COVID-19.Maj.-Gen. Marc Bilodeau say...