Promise tracker: What the Ontario parties are pitching on the campaign trail
TORONTO — A running list of election promises announced by the Progressive Conservatives, NDP, Liberals and Greens in Ontario since late March: Progressive Conservatives April 28: Spend $158.8 billion over 10 years for highways, transit and hospitals, ...
Biden meets with parents of missing journalist Austin Tice
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden met Monday with the parents of American journalist Austin Tice, who was abducted in Syria nearly 10 years ago, the White House said.
Nova Scotia’s mass shooting inquiry will soon focus on killer’s violent past: report
HALIFAX — The inquiry investigating the 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia released an interim report Monday that charts its progress and defends its decision to limit witness testimony. Having largely completed its initial fact-finding phase, the inqui...
Minn. GOP candidate suggests jail for Dem elections chief
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A leading Republican running for Minnesota governor has suggested that the state’s Democratic secretary of state should go to prison for his running of the state's election system, without providing any evidence that he's done
Energy chief Granholm touts $3B plan to boost EV batteries
WASHINGTON (AP) — Continuing its push to dramatically boost sales of electric vehicles, the Biden administration on Monday announced $3.1 billion in funding to U.S. companies that make and recycle lithium-ion batteries.
B.C. tables data collection law to help dismantle systemic racism, says premier
VICTORIA — The British Columbia government has introduced data collection legislation to help dismantle systemic racism faced by Indigenous and other racialized communities, Premier John Horgan said Monday. "I always say that I'm the son of an Irish i...
California’s population fell again amid pandemic’s 2nd year
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The nation's most populous state is shrinking. California's population declined again in 2021 for the second consecutive year, state officials said Monday, the
Harris negative for COVID-19 after taking antiviral pill
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris tested negative on Monday for COVID-19, six days after she tested positive for the virus, and has been cleared to return to the White House on Tuesday.
Biden lunches with Clinton as midterms loom
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden had lunch Monday with former President Bill Clinton as Democrats are facing long odds to retain their congressional majorities in November’s midterm elections — a predicament the former president knows only too wel...
Republicans look to surrogates for boost in Ohio Senate race
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — High-profile surrogates for Republicans running in Ohio's hotly contested Senate primary are fanning out across the state or holding other events to give their endorsed candidates a last-minute boost ahead of Tuesday's election. ...