Tag Archives: Politics

MONTREAL - A Montreal-area commuter rail line will be up and running again this afternoon following more than three weeks of service disruption by a rail blockade on the Mohawk territory of Kahna...

OTTAWA - The Inuit Circumpolar Council says if the novel coronavirus spreads to the North, communities in Canada, Alaska and Greenland are at a much higher risk of exposure because of a chronic l...

TORONTO - An Ontario court is hearing that prisoner access to sterile syringes is essential health care. In addition, advocates say provision of that health care should be separate from prison securit...

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne says the RCMP is assisting Ukrainian authorities in a criminal investigation of the downing of flight PS752. The Ukraine International Air...

TORONTO - Ontario Liberals will gather this weekend to select their new leader, a person who will face the daunting task of whipping a decimated party back into fighting form in time for an election j...

TORONTO - Finance Minister Bill Morneau says the federal government will soon announce support for Canadians who have to be quarantined in order to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus. He also s...

VANCOUVER - As members of the Wet'suwet'en Nation mull a draft deal over rights and title, another Indigenous community knows what that kind of recognition could look like.  The Tsilhqot'in Natio...

VANCOUVER - Countless treasured Indigenous cultural objects and ancestral remains are held by museums in Canada and across the world, and local communities and human rights experts say it's ...

VICTORIA - British Columbia has announced eight new cases of COVID-19, but the provincial health officer says the additional cases are not surprising. Dr. Bonnie Henry says four of the new cases are p...

OTTAWA - The federal cabinet has approved an agreement that will see Canada pay nearly $240 million in compensation to the Mohawks of Akwesasne to settle a land claim. The agreement is the result...