Tag Archives: Politics

LAS VEGAS - Candidates have hustled past smoky bars and slot machines to ask for votes in the back of the house of flashy casinos. They've made their pitches over plates of tamales, tacos and soul foo...

WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg said Friday that he's willing to release at least three women from nondisclosure agreements that prevented them from speaking publicly abo...

VANCOUVER - The federal and British Columbia governments and two First Nations have signed a long-awaited agreement to protect the endangered southern mountain caribou herds. Federal Environment Minis...

Canadian author Alice Munro is among dozens of Nobel prizewinners urging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to deny approval to a massive oilsands project in Alberta. Munro, Canadian biologist Jack W. Szos...

OTTAWA - Veterans ombudsman Craig Dalton is calling for nationwide consultations on a vision and plan for supporting former service members and their families. Dalton says a great deal has b...

The global body that regulates shipping is moving to eliminate a highly polluting fuel in the Arctic. The International Maritime Organization has passed a draft regulation to ban heavy fuel oil i...

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne says no one should construe the co-operation between Canada and China on the novel coronavirus outbreak as a sign that relations between t...

OTTAWA - The federal privacy watchdog and three of his provincial counterparts will jointly investigate Canadian use of facial-recognition technology supplied by U.S. firm Clearvie...

Here is the latest news on protests across Canada over a natural gas pipeline project in British Columbia (All times Eastern):   10:13 Police south of Montreal are patrolling an ongoing blockade ...

ST-LAMBERT, Que. - About two dozen protesters remain at a blockade south of Montreal in defiance of an injunction delivered Thursday ordering them to leave the site and stop disrupting rail traffic. P...