Tag Archives: Politics

WASHINGTON - The wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was arrested in the United States and accused of helping her husband run his multibillion-dollar cartel and plot his audacious e...

SURREY, B.C. - The head of the teachers' union in British Columbia is urging public health officials to expand guidelines on masks to include elementary students after seven schools reported cases inv...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from porn star Stormy Daniels, who sought to revive a defamation lawsuit she filed against former President Donald Trump. The justices did n...

TORONTO - Ontario labour inspectors are homing in on warehouses and distribution centres, but the site of a major workplace COVID-19 outbreak isn't included in the ongoing inspections: Canada Post. Mo...

OTTAWA - Air traffic controllers say Nav Canada is mulling layoffs even if it receives a possible bailout from Ottawa, jeopardizing passenger safety. More cuts would axe critically needed workers and ...

NEW YORK - Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen are teaming up for an eight-episode Spotify podcast series, swapping stories about their upbringings and even a White House singalong around a piano. The ...

RICHMOND, Va. - State lawmakers gave final approval Monday to legislation that will end capital punishment in Virginia, a dramatic turnaround for a state that has executed more people in its long hist...

WASHINGTON - Call it the Screen-Shared Summit. Tuesday's bilateral meeting of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and President Joe Biden - a strictly virtual affair, thanks to COVID-19 - offers hope of a n...

Alberta and its allies are in the province's highest court trying to have the federal government's environmental assessment act declared unconstitutional. "The Trojan Horse has now arrived," say argum...

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times eastern): 8 p.m. British Columbia is reporting 1,428 new COVID-19 cases over the past three days, for a total of 77,263 since the pandemic...