Tag Archives: Politics

HALIFAX - Ottawa has unveiled details of a $469-million program aimed at helping Canada's fish harvesters deal with the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. Fisheries Minis...

WASHINGTON - The Treasury Department will ramp up the size of the bonds and other securities it auctions across-the-board in the face of the unprecedented borrowing needs of the the U.S. government as...

OTTAWA - Nearly half of Canadians would support an election being called if the federal watchdog finds Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to have violated the Conflict of Interest Act again over the WE cha...

OTTAWA - A Canadian company is telling the government today that its trials of a potential COVID-19 vaccine on animals completely blocked the virus, but it must conduct human trials to know wheth...

Cori Bush, a onetime homeless woman who led protests following a white police officer's fatal shooting of a Black 18-year-old in Ferguson, ousted longtime Rep. William Lacy Clay Tuesday in Missouri's ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan - The U.S. secretary of Health and Human Services is scheduled to visit Taiwan in coming days in the highest-level visit by an American Cabinet official since the break in formal diplom...

Philippe Tawileh was with his wife and children watching television after dinner when they heard a blast and felt the house shake. The family of five who live in Byblos (Jbeil), about 40 kilometres no...

OTTAWA - Michael Levitt is resigning as the Liberal MP for the Toronto-area riding of York Centre. Levitt, first elected in 2015, says he has informed the Speaker of the House of Commons that he'...

OTTAWA - A Halifax-based charity is expressing confusion and frustration as it looks likely to have to foot the bill for nine students that it says were hired through the federal volunteer program at ...

OTTAWA - Green party leadership hopeful Annamie Paul has solidified herself as the frontrunner to win the party's vote in October, opening up a wide fundraising gulf between herself and her nearest op...