Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - People are told to stay home during the COVID-19 pandemic to stay safe, but homes are not safe places for abused women, says Silvia Samsa, the executive director of Women's Habitat. Samsa's o...

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will not review the eight-year sentence handed to a man who stabbed a teenager at a church.Maksym Kravchenko assaulted the girl in a washroom after a Sunday servic...

IQALUIT, Nunavut - Nunavut's former housing minister says he does not regret making a Facebook post about the Black Lives Matter movement that saw him stripped of his cabinet portfolios.  A post ...

MONTREAL - Authorities moved most of the cities along the St. Lawrence River between Quebec City and Montreal to the highest COVID-19 alert level Thursday, as the government pleaded with people to sta...

WASHINGTON - Although more buttoned-up on the stage than his boss, Vice-President Mike Pence nevertheless echoed many of President Donald Trump's falsehoods Wednesday in the one and only debate with D...

OTTAWA - The cost to consumers of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's keystone environmental policy will have to rise if the country is to meet its Paris climate accord goals, the parliamentary budget off...

Nominations are final for the November 9th municipal election in Saskatoon. A total of 38 people filed their papers for city council by the 4 p.m. deadline on Wednesday. Five people will challenge Cha...

OTTAWA - Trust.Capt. Kirk Sullivan is talking about running what has become one of the most talked-about Twitter accounts in the federal government.In particular, he is explaining why he doesn't have ...

BERLIN - Germany is seeing a sharp jump in new coronavirus infections, a development that is raising fears the pandemic is picking up pace in a country that so far has coped better than many of its Eu...

MADRID - A court in Madrid on Thursday struck down a national government order that imposed a partial lockdown in the Spanish capital and its suburbs, siding with regional officials who had resisted s...