Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - The largest private sector employer of veterans in Canada is calling on the Liberal government to reverse a decision to end a federal contracting entitlement which grants it first dibs on fed...

OTTAWA - A federal review report says members of the military and key spy agencies should be able to expose wrongdoing and file complaints through the government's whistleblowing regime. The recommend...

OTTAWA - A union representing Canadian Food Inspection Agency employees says the federal government is delaying a plan to shutter a food allergy testing lab in Quebec by two years. The Agriculture Uni...

OTTAWA - Human rights lawyers are calling on Ottawa to ban American imports that stem from forced labour linked to automotive firms using prisoner work in Alabama, under the same law meant to block pr...

VANCOUVER - The actions of a former RCMP officer accused of violating security law for the benefit of Chinese authorities were an affront to Canadian sovereignty, a Crown prosecutor told British Colum...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump's administration is placing economic sanctions on a major China-based oil refinery and roughly 40 shipping companies and tankers involved in transporting Irani...

TORONTO - Several Ontario hospitals have announced job cuts in recent months as they try to climb out of financial holes, a situation critics say will likely keep repeating. While the government gave ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A U.S. special forces soldier who took part in the capture of Venezuelan President Nicols Maduro will be released on bond on charges accusing him of using classified information a...

ST. JOHN'S - The Newfoundland and Labrador government's unorthodox sponsorship of a fourth-tier soccer team in England is over, but not all marketers agree it deserved the widespread scorn it received...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department has ended its investigation into Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell, clearing a major roadblock to the confirmation of Kevin Warsh as his successor. U.S. Atto...