Tag Archives: Politics

WASHINGTON - Vice-President Mike Pence was self-isolating Sunday after an aide tested positive for the coronavirus last week, but he planned to return to the White House on Monday. An administration o...

The latest news on the COVID-19 global pandemic (all times Eastern): 3:30 p.m. British Columbia is reporting 15 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the provincial total to 2,330 positive cases of t...

OTTAWA - For years, those living and working in nursing and retirement homes across the country have struggled as overburdened caregivers tried to maintain a basic level of care and dig...

OTTAWA - Canada has backed an American-led effort to allow Taiwan to be granted observer status at the World Health Organization because of its early success in containing COVID-19. The move is politi...

Federal officials stressed the dangers to long-term care residents and Indigenous communities if COVID-19 restrictions are lifted too quickly after projections in Quebec painted a dire pictu...

Provinces have been releasing plans for easing restrictions that were put in place to limit the spread of COVID-19. Here is what some of the provinces have announced so far:   ...

OTTAWA - The federal government has suspended shipments of N95 respirators from a Montreal-based supplier after about eight million of the masks made in China failed to meet specifications. ...

OTTAWA - A federal judge has locked in a compensation program for Canadians born with birth defects because of the drug thalidomide. Thalidomide was approved in Canada to treat morning sickness in pre...

TORONTO - Peer pressure and public messaging will influence Canadians' ability and willingness to maintain safe behaviours as restrictions around COVID-19 begin to loosen, some experts say a...

WASHINGTON - In the shark-infested seas of the world's new normal, Canada and the United States are in the same leaky economic boat - but one is bailing water while the other swims for shore. Bot...