Tag Archives: Politics

Robert Parris Moses, a civil rights activist who endured beatings and jail while leading black voter registration drives in the American South during the 1960s and later helped improve minority educat...

OTTAWA - When Mary Simon walks into the Senate on Monday to be installed as the country's next governor general, she will find the upper chamber sparsely populated. The installation ceremonies for Sim...

OTTAWA - Canada's spy service closely monitored the burgeoning nationalist movement in the 1960s and '70s, poring over pamphlets, collecting reports from confidential sources and warily watching for s...

The federal Conservatives are gearing up for an election they think will happen this fall. Conservative Party leader Erin O’Toole told Gormley, their party will be ready in the case of an electi...

LOON LAKE, N.S. - Nova Scotia's NDP Leader Gary Burrill spent Saturday campaigning in the largely African Nova Scotian riding of Preston where he promised, if elected next month, an end to street chec...

TORONTO - International travellers arriving at Canada's largest airport may now be funnelled into different customs lines based on their vaccination status. Toronto's Pearson International Airport sai...

One of the authors of a report examining what went wrong during British Columbia's extraordinary wildfire season in 2017 says this year's unprecedented heat dome demands new ways of approaching extrem...

REGINA - Two Canadian provincial premiers and the leaders of three U.S. states have called for the re-opening of the border between the two countries. Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe, his Alberta count...

WASHINGTON - Just because Canada and the United States worked closely together to restrict travel across their shared border doesn't mean they were always going to move in lockstep when the time came ...

IQALUIT, Nunavut - Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller says the federal government needs to do more to support people living in Nunavut, particularly when it comes to the territory's long-standin...