Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - Supreme Court Chief Justice Richard Wagner said Thursday he would welcome more diversity on courtroom benches, but he refused to be drawn into a broader discussion of systemic racism. At...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's justice minister says most details of a joint federal-provincial inquiry into a mass killing in the province have been finalized. Mark Furey says he's working out a time a...

VANCOUVER - A British Columbia park that straddles the 49th parallel with Washington state will be closed because it's overwhelmed with visitors using it as a cross-border meeting point. The gove...

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick legislators have voted down a controversial bill that would have made vaccinations mandatory for children in the province's schools and d...

OTTAWA - The prices Canadians have reported paying for goods and services have been rising more than the official inflation rate, a senior Bank of Canada official says. Deputy governor Lawrence S...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia is allowing people to gather in groups of up to 10, as the province has gone nine days without any fresh cases of COVID-19. The announcement by Premier Stephen McN...

OTTAWA - NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says he believes the gesture a Bloc Quebecois MP made toward him wasn't aimed at him personally, but dismissed the lives of Indigenous and Black people who ...

Here's a timeline of key developments in the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada since the first presumptive case was reported on Jan. 25: Jan. 25: A Toronto man in his 50s who returned from the Chi...

OTTAWA - A made-in-Canada mobile app to alert Canadians who may have been exposed to a person infected with COVID-19 is ready for testing in Ontario, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Thurs...

OTTAWA - The Trudeau government's superficial foreign policy hamstrung its diplomats and caused Canada's defeat in the first round of voting for a seat on the United Nations Security Council, says the...