Politics

OTTAWA — Public Services and Procurement Minister Jean-Yves Duclos insists it will be "relatively easy" to convince incoming U.S. president Donald Trump not to scuttle an icebreaker production pact with Canada.

NEW YORK (AP) — Disgraced former congressman George Santos , facing a federal prison sentence, has won a few months' freedom to come up with more than half a million dollars in court fines — including revenue from his new podcast.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Canada's premiers will meet in Ottawa Jan. 15 to finalize a plan to respond to tariff threats from U.S.

EDMONTON — Alberta's education minister is dismissing concerns from the province's teachers' association that more mandatory testing cuts into classroom learning and can be detrimental to students.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of people were dying from COVID-19 every day. Americans were still being ordered to stay-at-home or mask in public. Millions of people were eager to line up for jabs of the newly-released COVID-19 vaccines.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department said Wednesday that it intends to release special counsel Jack Smith’s findings on Donald Trump’s efforts to undo the results of the 2020 presidential election but will keep under wraps for now the rest of the

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The North Carolina House elected a new speaker for the first time in 10 years on Wednesday, choosing a young lieutenant to now-U.S. Rep.

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WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government says a review is being launched into the death of a man who waited eight hours in a Winnipeg emergency department, but it's not clear how much of the review will be made public.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — President Joe Biden added a new title on Wednesday: great-grandfather. His granddaughter, Naomi Biden Neal, gave birth to her first child, a boy, with husband Peter Neal at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.