Tag Archives: Politics

VANCOUVER - Larger amounts of suspicious cash with suspected links to money laundering and organized crime began showing up at British Columbia's casinos while the province prepared to host the 2010 W...

OTTAWA - A proposed bill seeking to make it illegal to force someone into therapy to alter their sexual orientation or gender identity is turning into a political fundraising tool.  Conservative ...

OTTAWA - The RCMP has charged a former business executive with bribing a public official from Botswana. The Mounties allege Damodar Arapakota, a former executive of Toronto-based IMEX Systems Inc., pr...

HALIFAX - The principal of Sir John A. Macdonald High School outside Halifax confirmed Thursday the school's name will be changed because of the role Canada's first prime minister played in developing...

INDIAN BROOK, N.S. - A Mi'kmaq First Nation that encountered violence after it opened a self-regulated lobster fishery says it will launch a series of lawsuits against non-Indigenous fishers for alleg...

WASHINGTON - A Justice Department report has found that former Labor Secretary Alex Acosta exercised "poor judgment" in handling an investigation into wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein when he was a t...

ATLANTA - As Georgia counties prepare for a hand tally of the presidential race, the state's top elections official planned to quarantine after his wife tested positive for the coronavirus, his office...

OTTAWA - Artificial intelligence must be regulated to protect Canadians' privacy and human rights, a federal watchdog says.In issuing new recommendations for regulating AI Thursday, Canada's privacy c...

OTTAWA - The Trudeau government is claiming success after reducing the number of older claims for disability benefits from veterans, even as the overall number of files in the system remains unchanged...

MONTREAL - For the first time since 2014, the Quebec government expects to run a budget deficit. Pandemic-related spending has pushed the province's deficit to $15 billion for this fiscal year, Financ...