Tag Archives: Politics

WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told senators privately Tuesday he does not yet have the votes to block new witnesses in President Donald Trump's impeachment trial. McConnell conve...

MONTREAL - The Quebec government says it will re-evaluate the $120,000 annual public funding it gives to the province's biggest women's federation after its president suggested that heterose...

VANCOUVER - A third case of a new coronavirus that's behind deaths in China has been confirmed in Canada by health officials in British Columbia, who say a man in his 40s ...

DES MOINES, Iowa - As a congressman in the 1990s, Bernie Sanders expressed an openness to making "adjustments" to the tax and benefit structure of Social Security. He also praised an overhaul of the s...

NEW YORK - President Donald Trump on Tuesday backed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Pompeo's battle with National Public Radio and tweeted out more media criticism, one target familiar and the other...

OTTAWA - The federal cabinet's decision on a huge new Alberta oilsands mine will weigh what the province is doing to help Canada achieve its climate goal of net-zero emissions by&n...

MONTREAL - A Montreal city councillor withdrew a motion to have the city adopt an international organization's definition of anti-Semitism on Tuesday, as critics charged that ...

WASHINGTON - An annual congressional report says the U.S. budget deficit is likely to burst through the symbolic $1 trillion barrier this year despite a healthy economy. Tuesday's Congressional Budget...

VANCOUVER - A former member of an anti-racism committee at the United Nations says she stands by its statement in support of the Wet'suwet'en hereditary clan chiefs. Gay McDougall was vice-chair of th...

OTTAWA - More than 98,000 civil servants may still owe the federal government money from being overpaid through the disastrous Phoenix pay system. The government revealed the estimate this week in a w...