Tag Archives: Politics

MONTREAL - Given the urgent need to reduce the city's environmental footprint, Montreal will move to fully ban the distribution of plastic bags by the end of 2020, Mayor Valerie Plante ...

TORONTO - Relatives of a slain American soldier have won a skirmish in their attempt to collect on a US$134-million wrongful-death award against former Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr. In a pre-tri...

OTTAWA - Canada has asked for international help to pressure Iran to give up the black boxes recovered from the wreckage of Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752, says Foreign Minister...

A former member of Parliament and leader of a fringe federal political party is suing a prominent political commentator and strategist for defamation. Maxime Bernier alleges Warren Kinsella repeatedly...

WASHINGTON - Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honour, during the State of the Union address Tuesday night. Limbau...

WASHINGTON - And then she tore up the speech. No sooner had President Donald Trump finished his State of the Union address than House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ripped the paper it was printed on in two. Ri...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump leaned hard on the strong U.S. economy as he made the case for his reelection in the State of the Union address - and he threw in a few theatrical flourishes. MUST ...

OTTAWA - Canadians are being encouraged to leave China while they still can as the federal government and counterparts around the world struggle to evacuate citizens from the centre of the n...

A chartered plane carrying Canadians from the centre of a virus outbreak in China is scheduled to depart Thursday. Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne says the flight w...

OTTAWA - The national cyberspying agency monitored a Canadian citizen, contrary to policy, for several years due to a series of internal mistakes, a newly released watchdog report says....