Tag Archives: Politics

The latest news on the COVID-19 global pandemic (all times Eastern):   9:35 p.m. U.S. President Donald Trump says there are plans to remove nearly 250 Canadians from two cruis...

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected every province and territory. Medical officers of health and Canada's chief public health officer are encouraging people to wash their hands, giv...

HALIFAX - A historic Canadian undergarment factory famed for long johns and boxer shorts is about to rapidly reinvent itself as a domestic producer of medical gowns. Stan...

OTTAWA - Canadians are supposed to get more details today of the federal government's massive emergency wage subsidy program - a day later than promised. Finance Minister Bill Morneau and Sm...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer are among the MPs who are promising to donate an automatic increase in their salaries to charity, as the COVID-19...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Tuesday warned Americans to brace for a "hell of a bad two weeks" ahead as the White House projected there could be 100,000 to 240,000 deaths in the U.S. from th...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is poised to roll back ambitious Obama-era vehicle mileage standards and raise the ceiling on damaging fossil fuel emissions for years to come, gutting one of the U...

OTTAWA - Public Safety Minister Bill Blair has asked the federal prison service and the parole board to look at early release for some offenders to prevent the spread of COVID-19 behind bars. The gove...

WASHINGTON - "America First" rhetoric and disdain for free trade are old news in the Donald Trump era, but with countries in a life-or-death scramble to stockpile gowns, ...

OLD CROW, Yukon - The chief of a remote Yukon Indigenous community says the Far North should not be considered a safe place for people to escape the novel coronavirus pandemic. Chief Dana Tizya-Tramm ...