Tag Archives: Politics

MONTREAL - Quebec Premier Franois Legault, one year away from the general election and deeply unpopular with the electorate, announced a major cabinet shuffle on Wednesday and promised to soon present...

EDMONTON - The first major industrial projects under the federal government's strategy to reduce Canada's economic reliance on the U.S. will be announced Thursday, Prime Minister Mark Carney told his ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump had dinner Tuesday night at a seafood restaurant near the White House, promoting his deployment of the National Guard and federalizing the police force in an e...

BOSTON (AP) - Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, a frequent target of the Trump administration, advanced in Tuesday's preliminary election and will face Josh Kraft, the son of the Patriots owner, in November. ...

Democrat James Walkinshaw, a politician with experience working on Capitol Hill, has won a special election to be the next U.S. House representative of the Virginia district home to the state's most p...

OTTAWA - An Ottawa man was among the tourists killed when a streetcar crashed in Lisbon earlier this month. Aziz Benharref, a Canadian who lived in the Orleans neighbourhood of Ottawa, was on vacation...

RICHMOUND - Saskatchewan's Opposition is asking why the province and its health authority responded so late to the occupation of a compound by the so-called "Queen of Canada," months after the sewer s...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court granted an unusually quick hearing on President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs on Tuesday, putting a policy at the center of his economic agenda squarely before th...

OTTAWA - Canada is providing $2.6 million in humanitarian aid for people in Pakistan displaced by flooding, and for Afghan refugees. Pakistan has been grappling since June with floods and heavy monsoo...

MONTREAL - The mayor of a town in eastern Ontario is proposing a clamp down on Quebec drivers who incur parking tickets. In a new directive posted in August, Gananoque Mayor John Beddows asked town st...