Tag Archives: Politics

ASBESTOS, Que. - The Quebec town synonymous with the cancer-causing fibre asbestos has voted for a new name: Val-des-Sources. During a livestreamed council meeting Monday night, Mayor Hugues Grimard a...

OTTAWA - The House of Commons has unanimously approved in principle - for the third time - a bill that would require judges to commit to take training in sexual assault law. Bill C-3 will now be scrut...

CAIRO - President Donald Trump on Monday said Sudan will be removed from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism if it follows through on its pledge to pay $335 million to American terror victims...

WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced charges Monday against Russian intelligence officers in a string of global cyberattacks that targeted a French presidential election, the Winter Olympics ...

HALIFAX - Kourosh Rad, owner of Garden Food Bar and Lounge in Halifax, says he removed his popular lobster-based menu items in support of the province's Mi'kmaq fishers. The Mi'kmaq are in a dispute o...

Spotty research and inconsistent monitoring have made it impossible to evaluate the health of most Canadian watersheds, a study has found. "It's still largely unknown," said Elizabeth Hendriks of the ...

Ontario urged families in four COVID-19 hot spots to hold off on trick-or-treating as the country inched towards marking 200,000 cases of the illness on Monday. The province's chief medical officer of...

OTTAWA - The Opposition Conservatives are setting Parliament up for another showdown that could trigger a snap election.  The Tories will press ahead Tuesday with a motion that calls for the crea...

OTTAWA - The RCMP in Nova Scotia have failed to properly protect Indigenous people embroiled in an ugly dispute over lobster fishing, Canada's Indigenous services minister said Monday. Marc Miller was...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear two cases involving Trump administration policies at the U.S.-Mexico border: one about a policy that makes asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for U.S...