Politics

Republican US Senatorial candidate for Pennsylvania, Mehmet Oz, gestures as he speaks during a campaign rally in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, on November 2, 2022.Photo by RYAN COLLERD /AFP via Getty Images WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday tapped Dr. Mehmet Oz, a former television talk show host and heart surgeon, to head the agency … Read more

The fire was first reported just before 1 a.m. Tuesday in a three-story walk-up apartment located on Jersey Avenue, just north of Kingsway near Central Park. About 100 residents are believed to be displaced following a fire at a Burnaby apartment early Tuesday morning.Photo by File /Postmedia About 100 residents are believed to be displaced … Read more

More than 300 plaintiffs who were seeking $1.3M in damages each will now collectively pay the Canadian government $5K in court costs A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by 330 current and former Canadian Armed Forces members alleging a 2021 vaccine mandate infringed upon their rights.Photo by Jeff McIntosh /The Canadian Press A federal … Read more

Air Canada is warning passengers to get to airport at least four hours before scheduled departure for India People line up before entering the security zone at Pearson International Airport in Toronto on Friday, August 5, 2022.Photo by Nathan Denette /THE CANADIAN PRESS Amid continuing tension between New Delhi and Ottawa, passengers travelling from Canada … Read more

The corner of West 4th Avenue and Macdonald Street in Vancouver a site of major redevelopment Darby’s pub and liquor store (black building) at Macdonald Street and West 4th Avenue in Kitsilano in Vancouver will be demolished to make way for a six-storey rental tower.Photo by David Carrigg Darby’s, the landmark Kitsilano pub, will close … Read more

‘They let in those Nazis, even at that time when they refused Jewish survivors, but even right now to protect them? Wow,’ says Hedy Bohm, a 96-year-old Holocaust survivor from Toronto Holocaust survivor Hedy Bohm photographed in 2016, looking at a small journal with notes from her parents and drawing from friends in a memory … Read more

About 55,000 employees walked off the job on Friday, shutting down operations and halting deliveries as the busy holiday season kicks off Canada Post workers man the picket line at the Bridge sorting station in Montreal, on Monday, Nov. 18, 2024.Photo by Allen McInnis /Montreal Gazette MONTREAL – Representatives from Canada Post and the postal … Read more

LOADINGERROR LOADING WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Tuesday to confirm Mustafa Kasubhai to be a federal judge, putting an end to Republicans’ baseless accusations that he is a Marxist because of a cheesy love poem he wrote decades ago as a student. Kasubhai was confirmed 51 to 44. President Joe Biden tapped Kasubhai, 54, for … Read more

Earlier on Tuesday, Ukraine reported that a third Russian strike in as many days on a residential area killed at least 12 This image was made from a video posted by a Telegram channel affiliated with the Ukrainian military on Nov. 19, 2024. The channel says it shows U.S.-supplied ATACMS missiles being fired from an … Read more

‘A prime minister committed to true reconciliation would have removed Randy,’ said former Liberal cabinet minister Jody-Wilson Raybould Employment, Workforce Development and Official Languages Minister Randy Boissonnault takes part in a press conference in Ottawa on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024. Photo by Sean Kilpatrick /The Canadian Press OTTAWA — Calls for Employment Minister Randy Boissonnault … Read more