Tag Archives: Politics

REGINA - Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says some businesses that were closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic could reopen next month. In a televised address from the legislature Wednesday, a first ...

OTTAWA - Widespread testing of correctional officers for COVID-19 would ease the current strain on hard-pressed staff, the national president of a union representing federal prison workers says. Broad...

WASHINGTON - Joe Biden's presidential campaign said Wednesday that it has refunded a $2,800 donation from Louis C.K., a comedian and writer whose career was derailed after five women accused him of se...

TORONTO - The Canadian Civil Liberties Association says it's going to fight for citizens nabbed for municipal recreational infractions during the COVID-19 pandemic. "We will be calling for an amnesty ...

OTTAWA - The Canada-U.S. border has opened ever-so-slightly to asylum seekers under the new framework unveiled this week extending the historic shutdown of all but essential cross-border traffic. Thos...

OTTAWA - Despite the fact two Canadian cargo planes returned empty of supplies from China, a New Brunswick biotech company has received its latest shipment of the key chemical that it says it nee...

TORONTO - Canadian colleges and universities are developing contingency plans to deliver classes in the fall, as students prepare for an uncertain semester due to COVID-19. The president of ...

WASHINGTON - The financial condition of the government's two biggest benefit programs remains shaky, with Medicare expected to become insolvent in just six years, while Social Security will be unable ...

WASHINGTON - The angry din of car horns echoed through Virginia's capital city Wednesday as the debate about America's path to recovery pitted impatient U.S. workers and business owners against g...

OTTAWA - As he announced yet another emergency financial aid package Wednesday - this one aimed at students - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau defended his decision not to create a univers...