Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - Military search-and-rescue personnel were delayed and in some cases unable to provide emergency assistance on about one in 20 of the hundreds of calls they received last year, ...

TORONTO - Even without a full-blown trial, a judge was right to decide that placing inmates in solitary confinement amounts to cruel and unusual punishment in violation of their rights, Ontario's...

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says his government will do whatever it takes to rescue the province from an oil price collapse and he wants the federal government to step up as well. "Thi...

OTTAWA - NDP ethics critic Charlie Angus wants the Liberal government to stop the RCMP's use of controversial facial-recognition software. The U.S. firm Clearview AI claims to allow police to compare ...

WASHINGTON - American troops have begun leaving Afghanistan for the initial troop withdrawal required in the U.S.-Taliban peace agreement, the U.S. military confirmed Monday, amid political chaos in K...

SCHIPHOL, Netherlands - As the trial of three Russians and a Ukrainian charged with multiple counts of murder for their alleged involvement in the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 got under...

WASHINGTON - It was a blunt warning about the dangers of youth vaping: Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr announced late last month that his state had joined 38 others to investigate whether Juul Lab...

WASHINGTON - The Capitol's attending physician said Monday that "several" members of Congress had contact with a person who attended a recent political conference and who subsequently developed COVID-...

LONDON - Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, are making made their final appearance as senior royals at Westminster Abbey, joining Queen Elizabeth II and other members of Britain's royal family Monday ...

ROME - Tensions in Italy's overcrowded prisons erupted Monday over new coronavirus containment measures, with riots in at least two dozen lock-ups and the deaths of six inmates who broke into an infir...