Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - Despite the daunting hurdles posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, Iran must live up to its pledge to co-operate with the investigation into its downing of a commercial airliner in January, says Fo...

OTTAWA - The federal government is asking banks and credit-card companies to lower interest rates for Canadians, many of whom are struggling financially because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The gove...

MIAMI - Venezuelan President Nicols Maduro stood defiant in the face of a $15 million bounty by the U.S. to face drug trafficking charges, calling Donald Trump a "racist cowboy" and warning that he is...

FREDERICTON - Some residents of Campobello Island, N.B., who must drive into the United States to reach the Canadian mainland, are asking the province for another way to get supplies during the COVID-...

TORONTO - Canada's highest court agreed on Thursday to hear Toronto's challenge to a unilateral decision by Ontario Premier Doug Ford that slashed the size of city council midway through the last muni...

WASHINGTON - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is promoting a veteran of the international-trade trenches to be Canada's first permanent female envoy to the United States - just as a raging global pa...

The latest news on the COVID-19 global pandemic (all times Eastern):   4 a.m. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will confer today with leaders of the world's biggest economies about the glo...

TORONTO - The unrelenting climb in COVID-19 cases in Canada continued Thursday amid tightening restrictions aimed at curbing the pandemic as experts warned against prescribing or using unpro...

A look at some of the top quotes from across Canada on Wednesday in relation to COVID-19:   "Do not spread the virus, just spread love." - Raymond Liu, who is part of a group that set up the tabl...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. government has concluded that retired FBI agent Robert Levinson, who vanished more than a decade ago, died while in the custody of Iran, his family and administration officials s...