Politics

TORONTO — A backlog of cases at Ontario's Landlord and Tenant Board has grown to 38,000 and it is taking an average of seven or eight months – sometimes up to two years – for a hearing to be scheduled, the province's ombudsman said Thursday.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Taiwan's chief trade representative says his country's semiconductor makers will expand production in the U.S. as much as they can afford to do so, but he insists Taiwan remains an ideal place for that production and other U.S.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The convictions on historically rare seditious conspiracy charges against leaders of the Proud Boys extremist group mark another major victory for the Justice Department in its massive prosecution of the attack on the U.S. Capitol.

SOMEWHERE IN CENTRAL UKRAINE (AP) — The fighters depart at dawn, single-file, rifles slung, compasses in hand, and disappear like chameleons into the lush greenery of central Ukraine’s dense forests.

CALGARY — United Conservative Leader Danielle Smith is accusing her chief political rival of not standing up for Albertans when it comes to the cost of living.

HALIFAX — Bonuses of $10,000 have lured 148 nurses back into Nova Scotia’s public system, the province’s health minister said Thursday. Michelle Thompson said the nurses who agreed to fill vacant positions include retired, casual and travel nurses.

There’s a shortage of monkeys available for medical research and the U.S. should expand its breeding programs rather than rely on international suppliers to solve it, an influential scientific advisory panel said Thursday.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Ukraine and Russia pressed their wartime rhetoric Thursday, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy expressing confidence that Vladimir Putin would be convicted of war crimes, and the Kremlin alleging that the U.S.

NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News is opposing a renewed effort by three news organizations to unseal documents related to its recently settled defamation lawsuit, saying it would do nothing but “gratify private spite or promote public scandal.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Partisan tensions in Oregon skyrocketed this week because Republican state senators haven't shown up to work since Tuesday , meaning the Democrats who control the chamber don’t have enough people to lawfully convene.