Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - These days, no roads lead to Rome for David Beasley. The executive director of the United Nations World Food Program made that clear on a trip to Ottawa this week, where he was trying to rais...

OTTAWA - Canada's largest labour organization and the group that bills itself as the voice of business in this country have set aside their differences to jointly confront the economic ...

OTTAWA - Leaders of Canada's three national Indigenous organizations will speak with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau by telephone Friday to discuss the impact of COVID-19 on Canada's Indigenous communit...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba's Opposition New Democrats used procedural tactics to block the release of the provincial budget for a second straight day Thursday, pushing back the delivery of the 2020-21 f...

BEIRUT - As 2019 gave way to 2020 in a cloud of tear gas, and in some cases a hail of bullets, from Hong Kong to Baghdad, from Beirut to Barcelona and Santiago, it seemed civil disobedience and govern...

WASHINGTON - Taking dramatic action, President Donald Trump announced he is sharply restricting passenger travel from 26 European nations to the U.S. and moving to ease the economic cost of a viral pa...

OTTAWA - The Department of National Defence reported all Canadian service members safe following a rocket attack on a military base in Iraq Wednesday. The attack killed at least two American...

OTTAWA - The criminal case against Canada's top military judge has collapsed. The Canadian Armed Forces' top prosecutor announced Wednesday that he was withdrawing all four charges against chief milit...

OTTAWA - Leaders of Canada's three national Indigenous organizations say they plan to turn up the heat on the Liberal government's promise to enact the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peopl...

OTTAWA - The flight recorders from the Ukrainian jetliner shot down by the Iranian military in January will be arriving in Ukraine in 10 to 14 days, the country's envoy to Canada said Wednesday. Ambas...