Tag Archives: Politics

Assata Shakur, a Black liberation activist who was given political asylum in Cuba after her 1979 escape from a U.S. prison where she had been serving a life sentence for killing a police officer, has ...

TORONTO - Ontario wrapped up the 2024-25 fiscal year with a significantly lower deficit than initially projected in the budget, yet the province will implement a modified hiring freeze in an effort to...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney is back in London this week - his second visit to the British capital among 13 foreign visits since March - and his globe-trotting schedule is drawing both criticis...

ST. JOHN'S - Canada Post workers have gone on strike in the midst of municipal and provincial elections in Newfoundland and Labrador, leaving officials racing to find contingency plans for mail-in bal...

OTTAWA - The federal government posted a budgetary deficit of $7.8 billion for the first four months of its 2025-26 fiscal year. According to the Finance Department's monthly fiscal monitor, the resul...

MONTREAL - The Quebec government is lifting a ban on the sale of gas-powered cars that would have taken effect in 2035. Environment Minister Bernard Drainville says the decision will give industry a b...

OTTAWA - With Canada Post workers hitting picket lines, the flow of mail across the country has stopped. Here's what the move means for items you may have been expecting in your mailbox. Mail delivery...

OTTAWA - Canada was not part of a mass walkout Friday morning during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address to the United Nations General Assembly. The office of Canadian Ambassador Bob R...

TORONTO - A homeless encampment in Toronto's west end was cleared by the city Friday morning after a small group of remaining residents said they wouldn't leave until they got permanent housing. City ...

OTTAWA - Unionized postal workers are on a nationwide strike this morning, after Canada Post announced it was planning to end door-to-door mail delivery for almost all households within the next decad...