Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - The Canadian Institutes of Health Research is set to release some urgent funding to study the novel coronavirus - including the fear it causes. The federal granting agency says it wants ...

KENAI, Alaska - An Alaska legislator has introduced a bill to rename a road to honour a late professor of anthropology at Kenai Peninsula College. The legislation to rename a road in front of the coll...

GUERNSEY, Sask. - The Transportation Safety Board says a fire continues to burn at the site of a train derailment in Saskatchewan and investigators can't access the site. It says one investigator...

The estimated cost to build the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion has jumped by 70 per cent, to $12.6 billion from $7.4 billion. More to come... The Canadian Press

Ottawa sociology professor Hassan Diab says his decade-long fight against accusations of terrorism has left him with chronic stress, depression and insomnia. Diab, his wife and two...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Justin Trudeau has landed in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where he will be the first Canadian prime minister to take part in a session of the African Union. The eight-day trip, which...

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government's advertising campaign that took a swipe at Quebec's secularism law appears to have generated a lot of bang for the buck in terms of publicity, but has not resulted ...

WASHINGTON - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and Saskatchewan's Scott Moe say they see signs that tensions in their relationship with Ottawa are beginning to ease. The two premiers are part of a delegati...

OTTAWA - The commander of Canada's special forces says relations with Iraq's government are "sensitive," and his troops are treading carefully as they help local forces fight the Islamic State of Iraq...

A Canadian-American couple on-board a cruise ship that has been quarantined off the coast of Japan say they're "a little stir-crazy" from being confined to their room. A two-week&n...