Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - The mayors of Canada's biggest cities are pressing the federal government for immediate money to address climate change, as well as a promise of predictable transit funding down the tracks. F...

WASHINGTON - The man accused of killing 22 people and wounding two dozen more in a shooting that targeted Mexicans in the border city of El Paso, Texas, has been charged with federal hate crimes. Patr...

OTTAWA - The federal privacy czar is asking a judge to declare that Facebook broke Canada's law governing how the private sector can use personal information. Privacy commissioner ...

MONTREAL - A Montreal school board on Thursday said it would renounce the money it was slated to receive from the federal government for a court challenge against Quebec's seculari...

GUERNSEY, Sask. - The federal government on Thursday ordered lower speed limits for all trains carrying large amounts of dangerous goods, hours after a fiery derailment in rural Saskatchewan...

Quebec Finance Minister Eric Girard says the province's fiscal 2020-21 budget will be tabled March 10. It will be Girard's second budget since the Coalition Avenir Quebec won government in 2...

TORONTO - Monitoring for the novel coronavirus in Canada will now shift into a new phase, focusing on people returning from areas of China that haven't been quarantined, top provincial and federal med...

OTTAWA - A new poll suggests overwhelming support among Canadians for expanding access to medical assistance in dying. The results of the Ipsos survey, conducted for Dying With Dignity Canada, co...

WASHINGTON - Years from now, will you remember where you were and what you were doing when President Donald Trump was impeached? Have you forgotten already? The country has been on a constitutional bu...

DETROIT - President Donald Trump took African American guests to his State of the Union speech, ran a Super Bowl ad boasting how he's making the criminal justice system more equitable for black people...