Tag Archives: Politics

A look at some of the top quotes from Wednesday on COVID-19 in Canada:   "Job numbers will come out tomorrow. It's going to be a hard day." - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. --- "Test, test, test,...

YELLOWKNIFE - The Northwest Territories is creating a squad of public health officers specifically to enforce orders around the COVID-19 pandemic. "If you choose to ignore orders and endanger our comm...

OTTAWA - First Nations and Metis leaders say they need more from Ottawa to combat COVID-19 in their communities, including money, assistance with security and help acquiring protec...

OTTAWA - Canada's energy minister will speak to his U.S. and Mexican counterparts Thursday in a bid to form a common front ahead of talks aimed at ending the global oil-price wars. But Deputy Pri...

Canada's politicians have been urging the public to work from home during the COVID-19 crisis, but a look at federal and provincial leaders suggests not all of them are following their own a...

OTTAWA - Gaps in Canada's data collection means the country could be unable to see which groups are most affected by COVID-19, researchers warn. There are questions about whether low-income workers ar...

OTTAWA - The Canadian Armed Forces has quietly revealed that 20 service members took their own lives last year, the largest number of military suicides since 2014. The increase came despite the federa...

EDMONTON - Landowners and legal experts say Alberta's hastily passed bill to help clean up the province's huge stockpile of abandoned energy facilities harms property rights without addressing why the...

EDMONTON - Albertan Premier Jason Kenney has announced some details about what he calls the province's relaunch strategy. The plan focuses on gradually boosting the economy while preventing a sec...

WASHINGTON - Canada's relationship with the United States has always required "constant gardening," but never more so than in the throes of a global pandemic, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland s...