Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - Canada's top public-health official Theresa Tam says Canada has begun to look at surveillance for local transmission of the novel coronavirus, just as the United States co...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will sit down with provincial and territorial leaders on March 13 to wrestle with some of the thorny issues that are dividing the nation. The first ministers' me...

VANCOUVER - A lawyer for patients and doctors fighting to maintain public health care in British Columbia says a proponent for private care wants to benefit from provincial regulation of pri...

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne is headed to eastern Europe next week, where he will meet Ukrainian airline officials and politicians, and visit Canada's NATO milita...

OTTAWA - The controversial use of facial-recognition tools will soon be scrutinized by MPs. Members of the House of Commons committee on access to information, privacy and eth...

OTTAWA - The Senate has voted to suspend Sen. Lynn Beyak a second time over derogatory letters about Indigenous Peoples posted on her website. Senators have approved a report from the upper house...

OTTAWA - Canada's old-fashioned city sewer systems dumped nearly 900 billion litres of raw sewage into this country's waterways over five years, enough to fill up an Olympic-sized swimm...

OTTAWA - Parliament's budget watchdog says Saskatchewan and Manitoba face huge increases in their debt loads unless the provinces change their fiscal policies or Ottawa increases transfer payment...

Public Safety Canada says the RCMP has been providing security for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex since November, but plans to stop in coming weeks. A statement from Minister Bill Blair's office says ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. - For the Democrats vying to challenge Donald Trump, growing public concern about the possible spread of the new coronavirus and the White House response couldn't have come at a bette...