Tag Archives: Politics

BRUSSELS - The coronavirus pandemic forced the European Union to postpone a scheduled summit for a week after EU Council President Charles Michel went into quarantine because a close collaborator was ...

OTTAWA - Federal opposition parties blamed the Liberal government for failing to properly prepare for the return of Parliament as negotiations around in-person versus virtual sittings went down to the...

MASON, Mich. - A prosecutor in Michigan has flushed a complaint about a toilet that was promoted as a place to drop absentee ballots. The election clerk in Ingham County informed police about a toilet...

HALIFAX - A Mi'kmaq chief says he's not satisfied with the federal government's response in the ongoing conflict between Indigenous and non-Indigenous fishermen in southwestern Nova Scotia. Chief Mich...

OTTAWA - The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern): 4:45 p.m. Nova Scotia is reporting a new case of COVID-19 for the first time in more than two weeks. Dr. Robert Strang,...

WASHINGTON - Law enforcement officials arrested 179 people and seized more than $6.5 million in a worldwide crackdown on opioid trafficking on the darknet, the U.S. Justice Department said Tuesday. Th...

OTTAWA - Canada will see a dramatic resurgence of COVID-19 cases unless people limit contact with others in coming days, the country's chief public health officer warns. Dr. Theresa Tam said Tuesday t...

A Quebec woman suspected of mailing envelopes containing the poison ricin to the White House appeared in court Tuesday on a charge of threats against the president of the United States. Pascale F...

A sketch of John Horgan, leader of the NDP in British Columbia:  Age: 61.   Family: Married Ellie in 1984; two grown sons, Nate and Evan. His father died when he was 18 months old. He was th...

A sketch of Andrew Wilkinson, leader of British Columbia's Liberal party:  Age: 63.   Family: Married to Barbara Grantham. They have three grown children in their 20s.   Education: Hold...