Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - The Canadian legal team for an imprisoned Iranian human-rights lawyer is calling for federal sanctions and United Nations intervention as she wages a life-threatening hunger strike entering i...

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick business leaders were presented with stark differences in political parties' economic plans Tuesday as they heard from three leaders ahead of next week's provinci...

OTTAWA - An underused program to give hard-hit small businesses a break on their rent is getting one more month of service, but without any of the changes critics say are needed to prevent stores...

OTTAWA - Nearly 35,000 people are eligible to cast votes in next month's Green party leadership race. Those numbers suggest the party will smash the turnout in the last Green leadership...

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole unveiled Tuesday the list of who will sit on the Opposition front benches, ahead of the party's first caucus meeting since he won the leadership race last mon...

KYIV, Ukraine - A leading opposition activist in Belarus was held on the border with Ukraine on Tuesday after she resisted an attempt by authorities to deport her as part of government efforts to end ...

OTTAWA - Canada is failing to bring suspected war criminals to justice, a prominent human-rights organization says in a new report that calls on the Trudeau government to take several steps ...

SALEM, Ore. - Hundreds of people gathered on Labor Day in a small town south of Portland for a pro-President Donald Trump vehicle rally - just over a week after member of a far-right group was fatally...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump says he's open to an investigation of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy following published reports that former employees of DeJoy, a major donor to Trump and other Re...

BRUNSWICK, Ga. - A Georgia prosecutor who has faced criticism over her handling of the investigation into the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery will face electoral opposition in November. Independent ca...