Tag Archives: Politics

OTTAWA - The Canadian Judicial Council says a Quebec judge has resigned after the Supreme Court of Canada declined to hear his appeal. Supreme Court Chief Justice Richard Wagner says Michel Girouard's...

LONDON - Police in eastern England say they have received a long-delayed letter from an Emirati princess asking them to investigate the disappearance of her sister 20 years ago. The letter is the late...

OTTAWA - The COVID-19 pandemic appears set to force a modernization of Canada's justice system. Already grappling with a backlog of cases, courts across the country were forced to pivot swiftly when t...

OTTAWA - The Canadian Armed Forces is reeling after news defence chief Admiral Art McDonald is being investigated for misconduct, only weeks after military police launched an investigation into allega...

OTTAWA - A new estimate suggests the move to a hybrid Parliament could save as much as $6.2 million a year. The system - which sees some MPs and senators participate in person and most others logged i...

WASHINGTON - Antony Blinken will meet virtually Friday with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau in a day of online diplomacy for the U.S. secretary of state. Blinke...

MONTREAL - Lucie Tremblay wants her colleagues in Quebec's health-care sector to get vaccinated against COVID-19. The head of nursing at the regional health board for west-central Montreal has taken a...

OTTAWA - A new report suggests the economic impact of the pandemic led to a massive increase in federal aid to Canada's oilpatch. But the annual inventory of fossil fuel subsidies published by the Int...

OTTAWA - A new poll suggests months of controversy has not dampened Canadians' strong support for expanding access to medical assistance in dying. Sixty-nine per cent of respondents to the Ipsos web-b...

EDMONTON - Alberta's COVID-19-era budget made a hard landing Thursday with an $18.2-billion deficit but also a promise that good times will return. Finance Minister Travis Toews said a continued vacci...