Tag Archives: Politics

NEW YORK (AP) - Federal prosecutors in New York dropped bribery and fraud charges on Friday against former New York Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin, citing the death of a cooperating witness against the Democ...

OTTAWA - With TikTok facing an imminent ban in the United States, many Canadian users are moving to rival Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu - also known as RedNote - pushing it to the top of downlo...

OTTAWA - An organization advocating for people with disabilities says the new federal disability benefit could be delayed beyond the promised July 1 payment date because the government still hasn't ap...

FREDERICTON - More than a year after the Saint John, N.B., police chief announced a review of his officers' conduct in the case of two men wrongfully convicted of murder, there is no sign of the promi...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine is expected to select his lieutenant governor, Jon Husted, on Friday to succeed Vice President-elect JD Vance in the U.S. Senate, according to tw...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President-elect Donald Trump will take the oath of office from inside the Capitol Rotunda on Monday due to forecasts of intense cold weather, according to a person familiar with the ...

QUBEC - Former Montreal mayor Denis Coderre has officially applied to enter the race to lead the Quebec Liberal Party, but the spectre of a dispute with the provincial tax agency is hanging over his c...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston says he's unsure whether he will publicly release mandate letters for cabinet ministers. Houston says discussions are ongoing about his government's goals for...

TORONTO - Members of the restaurant industry are calling on the federal government to make the GST holiday permanent, even though some businesses have yet to see much impact from the tax break. Some b...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden announced Friday that he was commuting the sentences of almost 2,500 people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses, using his final days in office on a flurry of c...