Tag Archives: Politics

DES MOINES, Iowa - Steve Sovern had low expectations for a recent event he hosted to support Elizabeth Warren's presidential campaign. Iowans are legendary for expecting to meet White House hopefuls i...

WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell abruptly backed offsome of his proposed rules for President Donald Trump's impeachment trial on Tuesday, easing plans for a tight two-day schedule a...

A "Buy Canadian" advertising campaign focusing on local food and the national agricultural system will be rolling out in the coming months, the federal government said Tuesday. Agriculture and Ag...

OTTAWA - Malaysia says it returned 11 shipping containers of plastic garbage to Canada after they arrived on its shores illegally last year. But Canadian officials, citing privacy laws, refu...

BRANDON, Man. - Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister is pitching his plan for a carbon tax to agricultural producers as a much better alternative than the current federal one. Pallister told an agricultur...

OTTAWA - The Conservative leadership race is underway and the deadline to register as a candidate and meet the first round of requirements is Feb. 27. Three candidates have officially declared they wi...

MONTREAL - Former Quebec premier Jean Charest has decided not to seek the federal Conservative leadership. In an interview with Radio-Canada today, he says the odds are stacked against someone from ou...

MONTREAL - A debate has emerged over an archeological find after an expert suggested that a wooden structure heralded as one of Quebec City's first fortifications is not ...

OTTAWA - Canada's prison ombudsman says disturbing and entrenched imbalances mean the proportion of Indigenous people in federal custody has hit a record high of more than 30 per cent. Correctional in...

WASHINGTON - Legal filings to the Senate have laid out the arguments that will be made in President Donald Trump's impeachment trial, where he faces two distinct allegations of abuse of power and obst...