Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - The Conservative leadership race is underway and the deadline to register as a candidate and meet the first round of requirements is Feb. 27. These candidates have been approved by the p...

Here is the latest news on protests across Canada over a natural-gas pipeline project in British Columbia: --- Victoria police said four people reported assaults during protests at the B.C. legis...

OTTAWA - Toronto lawyer Leslyn Lewis has become the first woman approved to run for the federal Conservative party leadership, saying she wants the job to bring courage and compassion back to pol...

OTTAWA - Canada is calling a meeting of its Lima Group partners next week to try to build new momentum in their effort to bring democracy to Venezuela. Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champ...

MANCHESTER, N.H. - Bernie Sanders won New Hampshire's presidential primary, edging moderate rival Pete Buttigieg and scoring the first clear victory in the Democratic Party's chaotic 2020 nomination f...

WASHINGTON - The four lawyers who prosecuted Roger Stone quit the case after the Justice Department overruled them and said it would take the extraordinary step of lowering the amount of prison time i...

MONTREAL - Medical aid in dying is not being driven by factors such as poverty, isolation, or lack of access to proper palliative care, according to a new study by Canadian researchers....

DAKAR, Senegal - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called on the world to do more to spread freedom Wednesday, as he visited a museum in Senegal that was once a centre in the African slave trade...

Two hereditary chiefs from a British Columbia First Nation at the heart of a wave of national protests launched a constitutional challenge of fossil fuel projects on Wednesday as Prime Minister J...

OTTAWA - Federal cabinet ministers now have their own special hotline to report suspected hacking incidents. Officials at the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security set up the rou...