Tag Archives: Politics

WASHINGTON - The financial condition of the government's two biggest benefit programs remains shaky, with Medicare expected to become insolvent in just six years, while Social Security will be unable ...

WASHINGTON - The angry din of car horns echoed through Virginia's capital city Wednesday as the debate about America's path to recovery pitted impatient U.S. workers and business owners against g...

WASHINGTON - Tensions between Washington and Tehran flared anew Wednesday as Iran's Revolutionary Guard conducted a space launch that could advance the country's long-range missile program and Preside...

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected every province and territory. Canada's chief public health officer and her provincial counterparts are encouraging people to wash their hands, give ea...

TORONTO - The Canadian military needs to help in understaffed nursing homes ravaged by COVID-19, the country's two largest provinces said Wednesday, as signs of a slowing pandemic prompted talk of eas...

OTTAWA - Reports to authorities about suspected child abuse or neglect are down as much as 40 per cent in some regions but child advocates say it's not because fewer kids are at risk. Daphne Penrose, ...

OTTAWA - Canada's urban Indigenous population is being left behind by the federal response to the COVID-19 crisis, according to the The National Association of Friendship Centres. Friendship cent...

TORONTO - The federal government has given up its fight against court rulings that effectively outlawed placements in solitary confinement lasting longer than 15 days. In a notice to the Sup...

OTTAWA - COVID-19 is presenting another challenge to Canada's long-running and tumultuous effort to buy new fighter jets. The federal government last summer launched a long-awaited competition to repl...

OTTAWA - Since there is already a housing and homelessness crisis in many parts of the country, advocates say funds to fight the spread of COVID-19 could be used to keep people housed long after the p...