Tag Archives: Politics

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says widespread rule-breaking has forced his government to bring back tougher public-health restrictions and that failing to do so would cause variant COVID-19 ...

VANCOUVER - A formal agreement has been signed by British Columbia, the city and parks board to work together to end a 10-month encampment in Vancouver that has frustrated residents who lost access to...

Advocates for old-growth forests say they are digging in as they try to protect parts of a valley on southwest Vancouver Island from logging. A dozen or more people who belong to the Rainforest Flying...

SAN DIEGO - The families of refugees and their supporters, including 124 elected officials, sent President Joe Biden a letter Tuesday urging him to make good on his promise to boost refugee admissions...

REGINA - Saskatchewan tabled its 2021-22 spending plan on Tuesday, the second budget prepared during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here's a look at some of the winners and losers: WINNERS Drivers: Motorists ...

REGINA - Premier Scott Moe's Saskatchewan Party government tabled its 2021-22 budget on Tuesday. Here's a look at some of the highlights: - A $2.6- billion deficit with revenue projected at $14.5 bill...

WASHINGTON - The Biden administration is moving again to increase U.S. assistance to the Palestinians as it fires up a new Mideast policy that is directly opposite of the one pursued by its predecesso...

ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey summoned China's ambassador after the embassy suggested on Twitter that it could take action against two Turkish politicians who criticized Beijing's treatment of its Muslim Uy...

HELSINKI - Greenland is holding an early parliamentary election Tuesday focused in part on whether the semi-autonomous Danish territory should allow international companies to mine the sparsely popula...

KYIV, Ukraine - Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Tuesday that 24 of the country's soldiers have been killed so far this year in eastern regions where cease-fire violations have escalated i...