Tag Archives: Politics

WASHINGTON - U.S. officials say President Donald Trump's long-awaited Middle East peace plan calls for the creation of a State of Palestine with its capital in portions of east Jerusalem, ending specu...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's legal team prepared to wrap up arguments in his impeachment trial Tuesday as Senate Republicans wrestled with whether to allow witnesses, including John Bolton wh...

OTTAWA - The Opposition Conservatives are hoping to use their newfound sway in a minority Parliament to force an audit of the Liberals' infrastructure program. The Tories have heavily criticized ...

OTTAWA - A former Canadian envoy to China says Britain's decision today to grant Huawei partial access to its next-generation 5G network gives the Trudeau government an "easy out" to make the same cho...

A Canadian teacher who lives in the Chinese city that is the epicentre of a coronavirus outbreak says he has no plans to leave.  Wayne Duplessis says he and his family are hun...

OTTAWA - The federal government says it rang up more than $1.4 million in legal costs during the failed prosecution of retired vice-admiral Mark Norman. Ottawa revealed the figure this week in respons...

OTTAWA - The parliamentary budget watchdog estimates the Liberal government's newly enacted income tax cut will cost $2.5 billion more than projected. A report from the budget office this mo...

WASHINGTON - A U.S. defence official says the United States has recovered the remains of two American service members killed in the crash of an Air Force plane in Afghanistan. They were the only two p...

OTTAWA - After the shocking arrest of one of their own on national-secrecy charges, rank-and-file Mounties were encouraged to get counselling if needed, decline to speak with the media ...

TORONTO - Mayors and police chiefs from the Toronto area are meeting today to discuss a recent spike in gun violence throughout the region. Toronto Mayor John Tory says he called the meeting - wh...