Tag Archives: Politics

ISLAMABAD - A temporary truce between the United States and the Taliban took effect on Friday, setting the stage for the two sides to sign a peace deal next week aimed at ending 18 years of war in Afg...

OTTAWA - Protesters have left a site south of Montreal where they had been blockading railway tracks since Wednesday. The end of the blockade Friday night followed the arrival of r...

OTTAWA - A plane carrying 129 Canadians and their families who have spent weeks confined to cabins aboard a coronavirus-stricken cruise ship in Japan landed on Canadian soil Friday morning. ...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is apparently not a fan of Oscar winner "Parasite," his biggest complaint being that the movie was made in South Korea. Trump started talking about the Academy Awar...

VICTORIA - A sixth case of the novel coronavirus has been diagnosed in British Columbia after a woman in her 30s returned to the province this week from travel in Iran. Provincial health officer ...

BRUSSELS - European leaders argued into the early hours of Friday about how to spend and share some 1 trillion euros ($1.1 trillion) over the next seven years. Their first summit since Britain quit th...

TORONTO - The first person in Canada to test positive for the novel coronavirus has now been completely cleared of the virus. Ontario health officials say the man in his 50s has now had two negative t...

OTTAWA - The watchdog for Canadian veterans is urging the federal government to explain clearly how it plans to eliminate a backlog that is keeping thousands of former service members waiting to ...

OTTAWA - Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says she wants to make Canada's trade negotiations more "transparent," by agreeing to proposals from the New Democrats to provide more details of ...

GUYSBOROUGH, N.S. - An inquiry investigating why a former Canadian soldier fatally shot three family members and himself heard Thursday from a firearms official who said ...