Tag Archives: Politics

DETROIT - Gov. Gretchen Whitmer prevailed Thursday in a high-stakes challenge from Republican lawmakers who sued over her authority to declare emergencies and order sweeping restrictions during the co...

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - Thousands of people tuned in online Thursday to hear the sombre sound of a bugle playing the Last Post and to take a moment of pause in remembrance of the victim of a Snowbirds p...

OTTAWA - Canada's top central banker says adding an income-support measure like the Canada Emergency Response Benefit to the government's tool kit could help the country ...

VANCOUVER - The British Columbia Supreme Court will release a key decision next week in the extradition case of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou. The court says Justice Heather Holmes...

OTTAWA - The Canadian Armed Forces is reporting a dramatic increase in the number of military personnel who have contracted COVID-19 while working in long-term care facilities in Ontario and Quebec. A...

EDMONTON - The Alberta government is changing its coal policies in a move it says is intended to make it easier to develop open-pit mines in one of the province's most sensitive areas. "Government is ...

WASHINGTON - Norma McCorvey loved the limelight. Better known as "Jane Roe," her story was at the centre of the 1973 Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade that legalized abortion nationwide. At first she was...

OTTAWA - The federal government is ready to help provinces massively scale up their COVID-19 testing capacity to fend off a potential second wave of the novel coronavirus, Prime Minister Justin T...

TORONTO - A justice who accepted a temporary deanship of an Indigenous-focused law school did nothing wrong but was instead the victim of unfair treatment at the hands of the body that oversees j...

CALGARY - Recent environmental monitoring exemptions for the oilsands have been broadened to include Alberta's entire energy industry. The Alberta Energy Regulator says the de...