Tag Archives: Politics

TORONTO - Via Rail says it is temporarily laying off 1,000 employees due to blockades that continue to halt service on CN tracks in Eastern Canada. The Crown corporation has suspended passenger trains...

KANESATAKE, Que. - An Indigenous leader in Quebec is retracting comments about ongoing rail blockades that didn't go over well with members of his own community. Kanesatake Grand Chief Serge Otsi ...

OTTAWA - Federal prosecutors are signalling they want to move the national-secrets case against a senior RCMP official behind closed doors - at least temporarily - while a key issue is sorted out...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump has ousted the Pentagon's top policy official who had certified last year that the Defence Department had seen enough anti-corruption progress in Ukraine to justify...

MONTREAL - The lawyer for a Quebec couple who left their ultra-Orthodox Hasidic community north of Montreal is telling a courtroom that Jewish schools operating there are illegal and leave n...

LAS VEGAS - Mike Bloomberg will confront the greatest test of his presidential campaign when he faces five Democratic rivals in a debate in Las Vegas that could fundamentally change the direction of t...

LAS VEGAS - Terry Reece has long been skeptical that voters would back Bernie Sanders, a 78-year-old self-described democratic socialist who is just months removed from a heart attack. Then the Vermon...

OTTAWA - Federal opposition parties are promising new information about the price of the Trans Mountain pipeline at a morning news conference in Ottawa. Environment critics from the Bloc Quebecois and...

VANCOUVER - B.C. Premier John Horgan raised his voice over jeers and fist-banging recently in question period after members of the Opposition Liberals criticized his government's handling of the clash...

VANCOUVER - A small, mobile RCMP detachment in a remote area of British Columbia has become a bargaining chip in proposed talks that many hope could put an end to blockades that have disrupt...