Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - The minority Liberal government unveiled sweeping goals Wednesday to expand or extend supports for Canadians from nearly every sector of society in a throne speech billed as their "ambitious ...

WASHINGTON - A Canadian woman accused of mailing a package containing ricin to the White House included a threatening letter in which she told President Donald Trump to "give up and remove your applic...

REGINA - A look at Ryan Meili, leader of the Saskatchewan NDP: Born: April 11, 1975, in Moose Jaw, Sask.  Early years: Grew up on a farm 40 kilometres south of Moose Jaw. His family moved into th...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump didn't have to look very far for one of the contenders on his short list to replace the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court: he's been considering one of ...

REGINA - Ryan Meili arrived unexpectedly.It was 1997 and Father Les Paquin was working at a Roman Catholic church mission in Brazil.The stranger at his door was interested in medicine and wanted to se...

SAN FRANCISCO - The University of California "inappropriately admitted" at least 64 wealthy, mostly white students over the past six years as "favours to donors, family, and friends," according to an ...

PORTLAND, Maine - Ranked choice voting will be used for the first time in a presidential race in the U.S. under a ruling Tuesday by the Maine Supreme Court, which concluded a GOP-led petition drive in...

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...