Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - It was near the end of June that Dr. Vivek Goel decided to give up his job as vice-president research at the University of Toronto to make whatever contribution he could as a public health ph...

FREDERICTON - Blaine Higgs says 2020 taught him a lot about the importance of perseverance. The New Brunswick Premier says his province held the line this year against COVID-19, guarding Atlantic Cana...

MONTREAL - It was a former CFL player and community activist who helped push the concept of systemic racism to the forefront in Quebec politics this year, after forcing the city of Montreal to confron...

LONDON - Britain's House of Commons voted resoundingly on Wednesday to approve a trade deal with the European Union, paving the way for an orderly break with the bloc that will finally complete the U....

JERUSALEM - Jonathan Pollard, who spent 30 years in U.S. prison for spying for Israel, arrived in Israel early Wednesday with his wife, triumphantly kissing the ground as he disembarked from the aircr...

NICOSIA, Cyprus - Authorities in Cyprus should consider stripping citizenship from a dozen individuals over their alleged involvement in acts of theft and fraud, according to the findings of a probe i...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - The decades-long fight by Argentine women's groups for legal abortion was being decided by the Senate in a debate that spilled into the early hours of Wednesday before a vote...

BATON ROUGE, La. - Luke Letlow, Louisiana's incoming Republican member of the U.S. House, died Tuesday night from complications related to COVID-19 only days before he would have been sworn into offic...

WASHINGTON - A federal judge on Tuesday ruled in favour of the Trump administration's plan to require hospitals and insurers to disclose the actual prices for common tests and procedures. The White Ho...

With the Census Bureau days away from likely missing a year-end deadline for turning in numbers used for divvying up congressional seats, President Donald Trump's administration still hasn't turned ov...