Politics

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia on Friday added a former speechwriter for President Vladimir Putin to its register of foreign agents, along with one of the country's most popular singers and a prominent opposition politician who has fled abroad.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford said he has been cleared by the province's integrity commissioner, who found no wrongdoing after developers attended his daughter's stag-and-doe event last summer.

Ottawa's decision to contract work around the search for unmarked graves to an non-Indigenous organization based in the Netherlands risks causing harm and lacks transparency, says a government-appointed adviser dedicated to the issue.

HALIFAX — Residents of a rural Cape Breton community that has lost power during cold and windy weather are looking for compensation from the utility — and a grid designed for the changing climate.

WINNIPEG — A search for the remains of two Indigenous women at a landfill north of Winnipeg could begin as early as April, pending the outcome of a feasibility study.

OTTAWA — International Trade Minister Mary Ng said Friday she hopes Canadians will see the "sincerity" in her efforts to make amends after breaking federal ethics rules, while sidestepping demands that she resign or refund taxpayers.

CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Moldova’s president tapped her defense and security adviser, pro-Western economist Dorin Recean, to succeed Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilita who unexpectedly resigned Friday, 18 months into a tenure sorely tested by the war i

SURREY, B.C. — Every community in British Columbia will be eligible for infrastructure grants coming from a one-time $1-billion government fund.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Projects to clean up 22 toxic waste sites across the country will receive $1 billion from the federal Superfund program to help clear a backlog of hazardous sites such as landfills, mines and manufacturing facilities, the Environmen

BEIRUT (AP) — On his first public visit touring the destruction wreaked by this week’s deadly earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria , Syrian President Bashar Assad on Friday pointedly shamed the West for shunning his country.