Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - If the novel coronavirus spreads to the North, Inuit communities in Canada and elsewhere in the Arctic are at a much higher risk of exposure because of a chronic lack of basic infrastruc...

TORONTO - Denying drug-addicted prisoners access to clean syringes deprives them of essential health care, which is a violation of their constitutional rights, an Ontario court hea...

OTTAWA - The RCMP is helping Ukrainian authorities in a criminal investigation of the downing of Flight PS752, Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne says. The Ukraine International Airl...

TORONTO - Ontario Liberals will gather this weekend to select their new leader, a person who will face the daunting task of whipping a decimated party back into fighting form in time for an election j...

The federal government will provide financial help for quarantined Canadians over novel coronavirus concerns, and pad its budget contingency should the economic hit be prolonged and deep, Finance Mini...

VANCOUVER - Countless treasured Indigenous cultural objects and ancestral remains are held by museums in Canada and across the world, and local communities and human rights experts say it's ...

VANCOUVER - As members of the Wet'suwet'en Nation mull a draft deal over rights and title, another Indigenous community knows what that kind of recognition could look like.  The Tsilhqot'in Natio...

VICTORIA - British Columbia has announced eight new cases of COVID-19, including the first apparent community transmission of the virus in the province. Dr. Bonnie Henry, the provincial health of...

OTTAWA - The federal cabinet has approved an agreement that will see Canada pay nearly $240 million in compensation to the Mohawks of Akwesasne to settle a land claim. The agreement is the result...

VICTORIA - B.C. Finance Minister Carole James says she has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and will not seek re-election next year, but she intends to stay on in cabinet "as long as I can do t...