Tag Archives: Politics

KABUL - The U.S. conducted Wednesday its first airstrike against Taliban forces in Afghanistan since signing an ambitious peace deal with the militant group. U.S. military spokesman Col. Sonny Leggett...

KASTANIES, Greece - Greek authorities fired tear gas and stun grenades Wednesday morning to repulse a push by migrants to cross its land border from Turkey, as pressure continued along its frontier af...

WASHINGTON - New York billionaire Mike Bloomberg suspended his presidential campaign Wednesday and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren was reassessing her candidacy, as the winnowing process in the De...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has created a new cabinet committee to deal with the novel coronavirus outbreak, which began in China but now has spread around the world. The COVID-19 cabinet c...

OTTAWA - A high number of undecided voters in the ongoing Conservative leadership race suggests there's room for others to catch up to, and potentially beat, front-runner Peter MacKay, says the v...

OTTAWA - RCMP Staff Sgt. Hugh Stewart did not mince words. "You have one opportunity to move up that road and clear it off or you will be arrested," he told protesters at the 1997 Asia-Pacific Economi...

OTTAWA - A new poll suggests Canadians weren't happy with Justin Trudeau's handling of the natural-gas pipeline dispute in British Columbia that led to nationwide ra...

OTTAWA - A new poll suggests Peter MacKay is the favourite to win the federal Conservative leadership race, though most Canadians haven't made up their minds in the contest.  The Leger Marke...

OTTAWA - Omar Samad calls the agreement reached this past weekend between the United States and the Taliban a "peace opportunity," not an actual deal. Afghanistan's former ambassador to Canada sa...

AUSTIN, Texas - Democrat MJ Hegar, a former Air Force helicopter pilot seeking to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, advanced to a runoff in May after falling short of capturing the nomination o...