Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - The federal government is for the second time extending its program to subsidize wages in companies hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, this time until at least December. But the gov...

OTTAWA - Peter MacKay's Conservative leadership campaign said Monday the party's deputy leader wasn't promised a similarly high-profile position in the House of Commons in exchange for supporting MacK...

MONTREAL - A Quebec man charged last December in connection with alleged online threats against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Muslims is facing two new charges. The RCMP said&n...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has apologized for not recusing himself from the government's decision to have WE Charity manage a $900-million student-aid program, saying his family's longtime...

HOUSTON - The Republican Party of Texas changed course Monday night and accepted a virtual convention after courts refused to force Houston, hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic, to let the party stic...

Teachers in Ontario's northern school boards are sounding the alarm about back-to-school plans, saying the region's vast geography and sparse population present challenges not considered in ...

A lot of businesses across Ontario are eagerly awaiting an announcement today from the provincial government. With recent data indicating a gradual but steady decline in Ontario's COVID-19 caselo...

EDMONTON - Alberta suspended environmental monitoring for oilsands companies without notifying the Northwest Territories, despite a legally binding agreement to do so. The omission is revealed in a se...

WARSAW, Poland - Polish President Andrzej Duda declared victory Monday in a runoff election in which he narrowly won a second five-year term, acknowledging the campaign he ran was often too harsh as h...

OTTAWA - A representative of Canadian families and loved ones killed in Iran's shootdown of a Ukrainian airliner in January says a new report blaming a misaligned missile battery and other mistak...