Tag Archives: Politics

EDMONTON - The director of a children's movie about Bigfoot wants to thank the Alberta government's energy centre for starting a "ludicrous" fight over the film. Ben Stassen laughed several times as h...

BANGKOK - A pageant contestant from Myanmar has used her moment in the spotlight to appeal for urgent international help for her country as security forces suppressing protests against last month's co...

ALBANY, N.Y. - New York is poised to join a growing number of states that have legalized marijuana after state lawmakers reached a deal to allow sales of the drug for recreational use. The agreement r...

OTTAWA - In the last four years, Health Canada has approved more than 1,500 new or updated pharmaceuticals. Ten of them are vaccines. Five of those are for COVID-19. Dr. Supriya Sharma, the chief medi...

A look at COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 4:00 a.m. ET on Sunday, March 28, 2021. In Canada, the provinces are reporting 166,566 new vaccina...

VANCOUVER - The relationships between Indigenous nations and British Columbia's mining sector are set to change as the province works to match its laws with the United Nations Declaration on the Right...

The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 10:30 p.m. ET on Saturday March 27, 2021. In Canada, the provinces are reporting 166,566 new vaccinations administered for a total of 4,967,...

OTTAWA - Canada's chief public health officer warned Saturday that current health orders are not enough to stop rapid growth of COVID-19, as provinces push ahead with plans to reopen their economies. ...

China's decision to sanction a Conservative MP as well as a Parliamentary subcommittee is an attack on freedom of speech regarding human rights abuses in the Xinjiang region, Prime Minister Justin Tru...

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Liberal Premier Andrew Furey was re-elected Saturday in Newfoundland and Labrador's pandemic-delayed election. Furey, 45, is an orthopedic surgeon who entered politics last year, bu...