Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - The federal government is again being urged to halt trade talks with Brazil after another summer of record-breaking fires in the Amazon rainforest. New data from Brazil's own space ...

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick's Progressive Conservative leader is trying to extinguish fears he'll revive plans to cut acute care beds and ERs at rural hospitals, while also de...

FRANKFORT, Ky. - Rapper and music producer Kanye West has filed to run for U.S. president on Kentucky's ballot this fall. A tweet from Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams showed a photo of part ...

VICTORIA - A group that sponsored an anti-racism mural that was called disrespectful by Victoria's police chief says part of the work is offensive. The African Heritage Associ...

OTTAWA - All signs suggest the complex prosecution of a senior Mountie for allegedly revealing secrets will grind through the judicial process well into next year. Cameron Jay Ortis, who led an R...

HALIFAX - A judge in Nova Scotia has rejected a woman's second bid to stop her husband from receiving a medically assisted death. The woman was seeking a stay of a lower court ruling th...

WASHINGTON - The lawyer for accused neo-Nazi Patrik Mathews will be back in court Jan. 12 to try to convince a Maryland judge to drop weapons charges against the former Canadian Forces reservist and t...

OTTAWA - Canada and its G7 allies are taking Russia's denials of the poisoning of Alexei Navalny with a skepticism, Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne said Friday. Navalny is in...

OTTAWA - Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson is open to imposing tougher regulations to curb methane emissions from the oil and gas sector if that is required to hit a 2025 target to cut them...

BOSTON - Two American men accused of smuggling Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn out of Japan while he was awaiting trial on financial misconduct charges can be extradited, a federal judge ruled ...