Tag Archives: Politics

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether states can continue to count late-arriving mail ballots, which have been a target of President Donald Trump. The justices took up...

CALGARY - Phil MacAulay has been a member of the Royal Canadian Legion for the past 50 years, and even he's surprised at the measures his local branch has taken to keep the 103-year-old building alive...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate took the first step to end the government shutdown on Sunday after a group of moderate Democrats agreed to proceed without a guaranteed extension of health care subsidies,...

OTTAWA - When Nancy Payne's son was killed in Afghanistan in 2006, his superior told the Lansdowne, Ont., mother that her son should never have been there in the first place. "They knew that they had ...

President Donald Trump's administration is demanding states "undo" full SNAP benefits paid out under judges' orders last week, now that the U.S. Supreme Court has stayed those rulings, marking the lat...

Sol Zanetti won his bid this weekend to succeed Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois as co-spokesperson for Qubec solidaire, and acknowledged the "steep slope" ahead for the leftist party. A fervent separatist, the ...

MONTREAL - This year, one Montreal-area city councillor will be chosen by an effective flip of the coin. In the on-island suburb of Montral-Est, a pair of candidates in the recent municipal election b...

HALIFAX - The heads of Nova Scotia's supreme and provincial courts are expressing their support for judges who ban court staff from pinning poppies to their robes during proceedings after some Canadia...

TORONTO - Five things to watch for in the Canadian business world in the coming week: Champagne in Calgary Federal Finance Minister Franois-Philippe Champagne will be at the Calgary Chamber of Commerc...

Canadian climate negotiators are headed to Brazil for the next two weeks as leaders gather for annual United Nations climate talks. The talks come as Prime Minister Mark Carney, whose credentials as a...