Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - The head of Ukraine International Airlines is thanking Canada for its part in investigating the crash of one of its planes outside Tehran in early January. In a long statement on the airline'...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is turning to two provincial civil servants to fill Senate seats for New Brunswick and Saskatchewan. Legal and constitutional expert Judith Keating fil...

OTTAWA - The federal Conservative party's fundraising machine appears to have run out of steam during the final three months of 2019, as new Elections Canada figures show the party long known for rais...

TORONTO - Canada lags well behind all but the United States among 11 of the wealthiest nations when it comes to the number of doctors per capita, a new report indicates. The analysis by the Commonweal...

OTTAWA - A federal program that tops up provincial revenues in response to sudden economic downturns won't be getting any changes until at least this spring. Finance ministers in Alberta and Saskatche...

ST-SAUVEUR, Que. - Quebec cabinet ministers are speaking out about a deluge of hateful comments posted to the premier's Facebook page after he published a message in support o...

WASHINGTON - Climate activists in the United States are shaking their heads in disgust at the latest iteration of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which Prime Minister Justin Trudeau defended Fr...

OTTAWA - In 2014, Justin Trudeau booted senators out of the Liberal caucus as part of his bid to transform Canada's Senate into a more independent, less partisan chamber of sober second thought. Yet o...

OTTAWA - Two long-range Russian bombers capable of carrying nuclear missiles buzzed Canadian airspace on Friday morning, the North American Aerospace Defence Command said, days after a senior mil...

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government is ending a practice that has allowed hospitals to notify child-welfare agencies about new mothers deemed to be high risk. "We need to ensure the safety of chil...