Category Archives: Politics
Doug Ford campaigns on handyman brand after tumultuous first term, pandemic ‘growth’
“Doug Ford is a builder,” a moderator read out to the audience of a recent Ontario election debate that asked leaders of the three main parties to submit biographies of themselves. It’s an image the Progressive Conservative leader has worked hard
Canada’s premiers want to reform health-care system, asks Ottawa to pick up the phone
REGINA — Western Canada's premiers want to reform their health-care systems by expanding services but they say Ottawa first needs to pick up the phone. At the premiers meeting in Regina, British Columbia Premier John Horgan said health-care services ar...
Supreme Court strikes down parole wait period provision for multiple murderers
OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada has struck down a Criminal Code provision that meant multiple murderers might have to wait 50 years or more to apply for parole, calling it degrading and incompatible with human dignity. The unanimous high
New law puts NHL great Konstantinov’s 24/7 care in jeopardy
WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. (AP) — Vladimir Konstantinov has traded hockey sticks for an Uno deck. Many, in fact. The onetime Soviet and Detroit Red Wings star plays so often that he goes through a pack per week, wearing out cards
Hong Kong’s incoming leader John Lee to travel to Beijing
HONG KONG (AP) — Incoming Hong Kong leader John Lee will travel to Beijing on Saturday to accept a letter that officially approves his appointment as the city’s next chief executive.
Documents reveal sea burials for 13 USS Indianapolis sailors
HONOLULU (AP) — Navy Seaman 2nd Class George David Payne was just 17 years old when a Japanese submarine torpedoed his ship in the last weeks of World War II, sinking the vessel and killing him along with more than
NRA speakers unshaken on gun rights after school massacre
HOUSTON (AP) — One by one, they took the stage at the National Rifle Association’s annual convention in Houston and denounced the massacre of 19 students and two teachers at an elementary school across the state. And one by one,
Shooter warning signs get lost in sea of social media posts
WASHINGTON (AP) — The warning signs were there for anyone to stumble upon, days before the 18-year-old gunman entered a Texas elementary school and slaughtered 19 children and two teachers.
Liberal Los Angeles could take right turn in mayor’s race
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Many voters in heavily Democratic Los Angeles are seething over rising crime and homelessness and that could prompt the city to take a turn to the political right for the first time in decades.
On remote US territories, abortion hurdles mount without Roe
HONOLULU (AP) — Women from the remote U.S. territories of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands will likely have to travel farther than other Americans to terminate a pregnancy if the Supreme Court overturns a precedent that established a national
