Tag Archives: Politics

Democrat James Walkinshaw, a politician with experience working on Capitol Hill, has won a special election to be the next U.S. House representative of the Virginia district home to the state's most p...

OTTAWA - An Ottawa man was among the tourists killed when a streetcar crashed in Lisbon earlier this month. Aziz Benharref, a Canadian who lived in the Orleans neighbourhood of Ottawa, was on vacation...

OTTAWA - Canada condemned Israel's military strike on Qatar on Tuesday, saying the attack undermines the Gulf country's sovereignty and risks escalating conflict across the Middle East. An explosion k...

RICHMOUND - Saskatchewan's Opposition is asking why the province and its health authority responded so late to the occupation of a compound by the so-called "Queen of Canada," months after the sewer s...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court granted an unusually quick hearing on President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs on Tuesday, putting a policy at the center of his economic agenda squarely before th...

OTTAWA - Canada is providing $2.6 million in humanitarian aid for people in Pakistan displaced by flooding, and for Afghan refugees. Pakistan has been grappling since June with floods and heavy monsoo...

WINNIPEG - Any decision on easing tariffs on electric vehicles from China would have to take into consideration impacts on other sectors, federal Agriculture Minister Heath MacDonald said Tuesday. Can...

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is expected to reiterate her policy demands face-to-face with Prime Minister Mark Carney Wednesday while he's in Edmonton to meet with his Liberal caucus. Smi...

MONTREAL - Quebecers support a ban on public prayer more than anywhere else in the country, says a new poll published this week. The Leger poll surveyed Canadians across the country after the Quebec g...

Ben Mulroney is taking the reins of Global News' political affairs program, "The West Block." Global News says Mulroney will serve as interim host while Ottawa bureau chief Mercedes Stephenson takes p...