Tag Archives: Politics

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced more than $77 million to help keep workers in the food-processing industry safe, but at least one union says the cash doesn't address the real problem....

OTTAWA - Canada's health-research granting agency has postponed its usual funding competition due to COVID-19, sparking concern the lack of money could disrupt work on cures that aren't related to the...

REGINA - The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations says an outbreak of COVID-19 in Saskatchewan's far north is alarming. Perry Bellegarde noted Tuesday that there's been a steady r...

WASHINGTON - For much of the last two months, President Donald Trump has rarely left the grounds of the White House as he's dealt with the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic and sought to minimize hi...

WASHINGTON - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi pressed ahead Tuesday with the next coronavirus aid, a sweeping package that is expected to be unveiled soon even as the House stays closed while the Senate reo...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau deflected questions Tuesday about why it took more than 12 hours for the Canadian Armed Forces to confirm a military helicopter had crashed and when he found out...

The latest news on the COVID-19 global pandemic (all times Eastern): 9 p.m. Ontario is allowing licensed restaurants and bars to sell alcohol at a lower price with a food order during the CO...

OTTAWA - Add chickens, mushrooms and potatoes to the ever-longer list of products being purchased by the federal government to combat the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. A program being heralded as t...

OTTAWA - Nearly 2,000 square kilometres in the Gulf of St. Lawrence are closed to fixed-gear fisheries until May 18 after the first right whales of the season were spotted by a Fisheries and Oceans pl...

OTTAWA - Liberal MP and former cabinet minister Jim Carr is returning to hospital for a stem-cell transplant, a treatment that had been twice delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Winnipeg MP shar...