Tag Archives: Politics

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - The Canadian government says it will spend $3.16 billion to plant two billion trees over the next ten years. Natural Resources Minister Seamus O'Regan made the funding announcement ...

MONTREAL - Random police stops should be banned for all of Quebec's police forces and patrol units should include social workers who can de-escalate tensions during interventions, the province's anti-...

Wildfires have taken over from industry as a major source of a group of cancer-causing chemical toxins in the air, Environment Canada says. The first national assessment of polycyclic aromatic compoun...

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration on Monday imposed sanctions on its NATO ally Turkey over its purchase of a Russian air defence system, in a striking move against a longtime partner that sets the...

MADISON, Wis. - A narrowly divided Wisconsin Supreme Court on Monday rejected President Donald Trump's lawsuit attempting to overturn his election loss in the battleground state about an hour before t...

TORONTO - A personal support worker from a Toronto nursing home received Canada's first COVID-19 vaccine on Monday, kicking off what will be a massive national immunization campaign. Anita Quidangen, ...

London and its surrounding areas will be placed under Britain's highest level of coronavirus restrictions beginning Wednesday as infections rise rapidly in the capital, the health secretary said Monda...

OTTAWA - Canada is helping fund the creation of a new international system to help distribute any extra COVID-19 vaccines to poor countries, says International Development Minister Karina Gould. "Cana...

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration for the first time on Monday formally blamed Iran for the presumed death of retired FBI agent Robert Levinson, publicly identifying two Iranian intelligence offic...

OTTAWA - The year 2020 will go down as the worst for refugee resettlement in recent history, says the UN refugee agency's Canadian representative. With nearly 168 countries implementing border and tra...