Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - Independent senators are renewing their calls for the Liberal government to move forward with legislation to officially change how the Senate functions.    The majority of senators ...

OTTAWA - The Public Health Agency of Canada is getting a new president as the country heads into the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has tapped Iain Stewart, curren...

LANGFORD, B.C. - Premier John Horgan called an early election Monday, saying British Columbia needs stability during the COVID-19 pandemic as opposition leaders accused him of putting politics ah...

MONTREAL - COVID-19 appeared to be gaining steam in Canada's two most populous provinces on Monday, prompting Quebec's public health director to announce the beginning of a second wave. Quebec and Ont...

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern): 6:35 p.m. There have been another four deaths in B.C. due to COVID-19 complications. Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie H...

ST-HUBERT, Que. - RCMP raided a residence on Montreal's south shore Monday in connection with envelopes containing the poison ricin that were sent to the White House and to various...

WASHINGTON, Wash. - A solemn procession of ordinary Americans, many of them mothers with daughters in tow, left flowers, cards and tributes scrawled in chalk Monday as they publicly mourned the death ...

OTTAWA - The federal Liberals plan to spend $1 billion over the next six months so cities and housing providers can buy properties being sold because of the COVID-19 pandemic and use them to keep peop...

HALIFAX - Indigenous chiefs in Nova Scotia are calling on the federal government to denounce what they described as racism and violence directed towards the Mi'kmaq people following a weeken...

OTTAWA - The federal government has reluctantly given green lights to both Ontario and New Brunswick to use their own carbon-pricing systems for big industrial emitters, rather than have a federal pro...