Tag Archives: Politics

LONDON - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson remains in intensive care with the coronavirus but is improving and sitting up in bed, a senior government minister said Wednesday, as the U.K. recorded i...

BERLIN - One person was injured after a fire broke out Wednesday at a replica of a Prussian palace being rebuilt on the city's historic Unter den Linden boulevard, which was brought quickly under cont...

TORONTO - Canada's confirmed cases of COVID-19 surged past 19,000 on Wednesday, with more than 500 deaths ascribed to the raging global pandemic as Quebec became the province with the most fatali...

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected every province and territory. Canada's chief public health officer and her provincial counterparts are encouraging people to wash their hands, give ea...

OTTAWA - Cities and construction groups are asking the Trudeau Liberals to relax the rules for expected cost overruns from infrastructure projects facing delays from the COVID-19 pandemic - or ad...

OTTAWA - The Trudeau government says 23 Canadians were being held at federal quarantine sites as the week began to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The newly released figure, the most current...

OTTAWA - The head of the United Nations children's agency says the COVID-19 outbreak has sparked an increase in online child sexual predators that organizations, governments and parents need to take m...

OTTAWA - Canada's deputy minister of foreign affairs has tested positive for COVID-19. Marta Morgan has been the top official in the department for just under a year, after leading the Immigration Dep...

VANCOUVER - Government medical professionals say Canada's jails and prisons don't meet with physical distancing guidelines for COVID-19 and they want as many inmates as possible to be releas...

WASHINGTON - Americans and Canadians alike are used to seeing gauzy, pastel-coloured pitches for medicines, therapies and treatments on cable television. They're less accustomed to ...