While the CP Rail work stoppage has businesses calling for back-to-work legislation, the Liberal government and opposition MPs avoided discussing the idea as they debated next steps in the House of Commons Monday. Canadian Pacific rail cars in a yard in Scarborough, Ont. on March 21, 2022. About 3,000 unionized engineers, conductors and other train workers across…
Moscow — A court in Belarus handed a 11-year jail sentence to Maria Kolesnikova, an opposition leader who inspired massive protests against dictatorial…
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney said the strategy to lift all remaining health restrictions was proposed by the province’s chief medical officer of health, not by the Alberta government.A number of protests have taken place in Edmonton and Calgary, including this one on Tuesday morning at the Alberta legislature. (Janet French/CBC News)Alberta’s Opposition New Democratic Party…
Besieged by growing opposition and a fourth wave of COVID-19, Japan is determined to go ahead with the Tokyo Olympic Games next month.A man walks past the Olympic rings in Tokyo on Monday. Despite a year-long delay caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the 2020 Summer Games are scheduled to open in the Japanese capital on…
Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny returned to Moscow on Sunday for the first time since he was poisoned this summer by a…
