Tag Archives: Politics

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...

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...