Canada raids emergency stockpile to send medical equipment to Ukraine
OTTAWA — Canada has tapped into its own strategic stockpile of emergency medical supplies — stored for a national emergency — to help Ukraine. It has donated over 375,000 items of medical equipment and medicines from Canada's strategic stockpile since...
Police waited 45 minutes to breach classroom in Uvalde, believing kids not at risk
WASHINGTON — Public safety officials admitted to a deadly lapse in judgment while gun-rights advocates were deferential but defiant Friday as a divided, heartbroken nation continued to mourn the lives of 19 fourth-grade students and their two teachers ...
Adam Conover’s ‘G Word’ is funny crash course in government
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Adam Conover is certain that laughing and thinking at the same time is both possible and downright synergistic. He tested the approach in
B.C. aims to end ‘period poverty,’ expand access to menstrual products
BURNABY, B.C. — The British Columbia government says it is providing $750,000 to expand access to free menstrual products for people who need them and to help the United Way establish a task force to consider how to end "period
Republicans kept off Michigan ballot turn to the courts
DETROIT (AP) — Business owner Perry Johnson filed a lawsuit Friday to try to get on Michigan's August primary ballot, the first of many likely legal challenges after five Republican candidates for governor were barred because of too few valid
Trump election probe grand jury to hear from Raffensperger
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's secretary of state is expected to appear next week before a special grand jury in an investigation into whether former President Donald Trump and others illegally tried to meddle in the 2020 election in the state.
Montana schools chief cited in case of illegal bus passing
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana’s top schools administrator has been cited in the case of a pickup truck that illegally passed a school bus while it was stopped to pick up students in a residential subdivision last week.
McCarthy, GOP lawmakers escalate standoff with Jan. 6 panel
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy is making it clear that he will likely defy a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, escalating a standoff with the panel over his and other GOP
English school board says it will file legal challenge of Quebec language law reform
MONTREAL — The English Montreal School Board says it will launch a legal challenge of Quebec's recently adopted language law reform. The board said in a news release today that it believes the law, commonly known as Bill 96, violates English-speaking
Canada could help wean Europe from Russian oil and gas by shipping clean hydrogen
OTTAWA — Canada could ship clean hydrogen to Europe in the future to help wean it from its dependency on Russian oil and gas, say federal ministers. At meetings with G7 counterparts in Berlin this week, Natural Resources Minster Jonathan Wilkinson
