Tag Archives: Politics

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...

OTTAWA - Canada condemned Israel's military strike on Qatar on Tuesday, saying the attack undermines the Gulf country's sovereignty and risks escalating conflict across the Middle East. An explosion k...

WINNIPEG - Any decision on easing tariffs on electric vehicles from China would have to take into consideration impacts on other sectors, federal Agriculture Minister Heath MacDonald said Tuesday. Can...

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is expected to reiterate her policy demands face-to-face with Prime Minister Mark Carney Wednesday while he's in Edmonton to meet with his Liberal caucus. Smi...

ATLANTA (AP) - A Georgia judge on Tuesday said he will toss the racketeering charges against all 61 defendants accused of a yearslong conspiracy to halt the construction of a police and firefighter tr...

MONTREAL - Quebecers support a ban on public prayer more than anywhere else in the country, says a new poll published this week. The Leger poll surveyed Canadians across the country after the Quebec g...

Ben Mulroney is taking the reins of Global News' political affairs program, "The West Block." Global News says Mulroney will serve as interim host while Ottawa bureau chief Mercedes Stephenson takes p...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Missouri's Republican-led House turned aside Democratic objections Tuesday and passed a plan backed by President Donald Trump to redraw the state's congressional districts s...