Tag Archives: Politics

VANCOUVER - A "misunderstanding" lies at the heart of a Canadian border official's belief that she was ordered not to take notes about Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou's arrest at Vancouver's airport, a ...

OTTAWA - A senior civil servant wouldn't disclose to a parliamentary committee Friday whom she communicated with in the Prime Minister's Office about a sexual-misconduct allegation against Canada's to...

OTTAWA - Beginning Monday, travellers could be fined up to $2,000 for trying to slip cannabis into Canada. For more than two years, adults in Canada have been allowed to possess and share up to 30 gra...

OTTAWA - A leading gun-control group is urging MPs to vote against the Liberal government's new firearms bill, saying it is too weak to salvage. The bill would implement a program to buy back recently...

MONTREAL - The Crown has laid a second-degree murder charge against a Montreal man whose girlfriend died following an alleged assault last weekend.The upgraded charges against Brandon McIntyre came du...

WASHINGTON - Dominion Voting Systems filed a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News on Friday, arguing the cable news giant, in an effort to boost faltering ratings, falsely claimed that the...

HALIFAX - Another chapter in Sable Island's long history of providing rescue services for struggling seafarers may be about to begin. The Royal Canadian Air Force says it is assessing whether to set u...

OTTAWA - The federal government says it ran a budgetary deficit of $268.2 billion through 10 months of its fiscal year as the treasury pumped out more pandemic aid. The deficit from April to January c...

The race and age of jurors has a noticeable effect on trial verdicts, American studies indicate, but Canada has no data allowing similar research here. Experts in Canada said it's imperative to gather...

A lack of data on race, gender or age makes it impossible to know whether systemic jury bias plays a role in who ends up behind bars in Canada - and who doesn't. Experts say the information gap is cru...