Tag Archives: Politics

MILAN - Protesters set trash bins afire and police responded with hydrant sprays in downtown Rome Tuesday night, part of a day of public outpouring of anger against virus-fighting measures like evenin...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Surging COVID-19 cases in Chicago prompted Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Tuesday to ban indoor dining and bar services and limit the number of people gathering in one place. However, Chica...

ATGLEN, Pa. - Melania Trump lined up squarely with her husband Tuesday on her first solo trip of the 2020 campaign, slamming Joe Biden, Democrats and the media as she pushed the president's reeelectio...

OTTAWA - A new survey suggests Canadians are broadly supportive of freedom of speech on university campuses, at all costs.  The poll comes as debate continues over a case at the University of Ott...

OTTAWA - The country's top public servant is offering to testify about controversial redactions to some 5,000 pages of documents the government released on the WE Charity affair. Ian Shugart, clerk of...

WASHINGTON, Wash. - Donald Trump has officially let Canadian aluminum producers out of the national-security doghouse - for now.  The U.S. president formally signed a proclamation today exempting...

IQALUIT, Nunavut - Nunavut is not closing the door on having its own police oversight body and new legislation would allow it to start hiring civilian investigative groups, says the territory's deputy...

OTTAWA - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland laid out how federal spending might be reshaped along a bumpy recovery, saying relief will be targeted and likely greater than what was needed after the las...

OTTAWA - More than 10,000 Canadians have died due to COVID-19, a grim milestone reached by a pandemic that is far from over. Twenty-eight new deaths reported in Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba and Alberta p...

OTTAWA - Canada's prison ombudsman is calling for a moratorium on allowing medically assisted deaths inside federal correctional institutions, part of a sweeping annual report that also took a closer ...