Tag Archives: Politics

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump has clinched the Republican Party nomination, surpassing the necessary delegate threshold. Trump, who had only token opposition, now has more than the 1,276 delegat...

VICTORIA - There have been three more deaths from COVID-19 in British Columbia and a public health emergency has been declared. The latest deaths bring the total number of people in the province ...

OTTAWA - Asylum seekers crossing by foot into Canada from the U.S. are being screened for COVID-19 and moved to a shelter to accommodate the requirement that all incoming travellers to Canada self-iso...

OTTAWA - The federal government is pondering whether it needs to invoke the Emergencies Act to give itself additional powers to grapple with the rapid spread of the COVID-19 virus. Deputy Prime Minist...

WASHINGTON - Movie theatres are shuttered, schools and universities unnervingly quiet, businesses and borders are turning people away and North America is bracing for the worst as the urgenc...

WASHINGTON - Defence Secretary Mark Esper said Tuesday that the Pentagon will provide civilian health authorities with 5 million respirator masks and 2,000 specialized ventilators to help in a nationa...

MOSCOW - Eduard Limonov, a Russian author and political activist known for his poignant and controversial writings, died on Tuesday. He was 77. Limonov's death was announced by the Other Russia politi...

EDMONTON - A judge has delivered a legal victory to a mother who fled to Alberta from France with her two children over allegations her ex-husband sexually abused the youngsters. The Cr...

BEIJING - China said Wednesday it will revoke the media credentials of all American journalists at three major U.S. news organizations, in effect expelling them from the country, in response to U.S. r...

MONTREAL - Quebec Premier Francois Legault on Tuesday implored teens and young adults in the province to abide by extraordinary rules forbidding social gatherings amid the biggest spike yet in the num...