Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - The country's top public servant is offering to testify about controversial redactions to some 5,000 pages of documents the government released on the WE Charity affair. Ian Shugart, clerk of...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Surging COVID-19 cases in Chicago prompted Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Tuesday to ban indoor dining and bar services and limit the number of people gathering in one place. However, Chica...

WASHINGTON, Wash. - Donald Trump has officially let Canadian aluminum producers out of the national-security doghouse - for now.  The U.S. president formally signed a proclamation today exempting...

IQALUIT, Nunavut - Nunavut is not closing the door on having its own police oversight body and new legislation would allow it to start hiring civilian investigative groups, says the territory's deputy...

OTTAWA - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland laid out how federal spending might be reshaped along a bumpy recovery, saying relief will be targeted and likely greater than what was needed after the las...

OTTAWA - More than 10,000 Canadians have died due to COVID-19, a grim milestone reached by a pandemic that is far from over. Twenty-eight new deaths reported in Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba and Alberta p...

OTTAWA - Canada's prison ombudsman is calling for a moratorium on allowing medically assisted deaths inside federal correctional institutions, part of a sweeping annual report that also took a closer ...

OTTAWA - Fifteen cities will share $500 million in federal funding so they can buy properties being sold because of the COVID-19 pandemic and use them to help keep people from becoming homeless. Canad...

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern): 8:15 p.m. As of Oct. 26, federal Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller says there were 362 active cases of COVID-10 in First ...

OTTAWA - A judge says a refugee pact between Canada and the United States will remain in place until a full legal hearing of the measure is resolved.In a new ruling, Federal Court of Appeal Justice Da...