Politics

OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada said Thursday it will not hear the case of four Canadian men held in Syria who argue Ottawa has a legal duty to help them return home.

OTTAWA — A lawyer for a former RCMP intelligence official charged with leaking secrets told a jury on Thursday that his client did not betray Canada, but acted on a "clear and grave threat.

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Major League Baseball will play its 2025 All-Star Game in Atlanta, four years after moving the event from Truist Park to Denver’s Coors Field over objections to changes in Georgia’s voting rights laws.

REGINA — The Saskatchewan government has introduced legislation that it says would enable it to stop remitting the federal carbon tax on natural gas bills while providing legal protection for those at its energy Crown corporation.

WASHINGTON (AP) — National Democrats this year have insisted the party is united and ready to rally around President Joe Biden heading into next year's election.

An Ohio man who repeatedly attacked police officers as he joined a mob of Donald Trump supporters in storming the U.S. Capitol was sentenced on Thursday to nearly five years in prison.

OTTAWA — Canada's long-standing support of Israel in votes at the United Nations has come under renewed scrutiny during the latest Israel-Hamas war. On Oct.

TORONTO — Ontario is boosting the minimum wage of early childhood educators in most licensed child-care centres to $23.

ATLANTA (AP) — It's a pattern Southern states have repeated for decades: A federal court rules an electoral map illegally dilutes the power of Black voters and orders a new one. But with Georgia lawmakers scheduled to return Nov.

MONTREAL — When bad weather forced the cancellation of a performance by Les Cowboys Fringants at the Festival d'été de Québec this summer, organizers added an extra day to the festival just to give the beloved folk-rock band an opportunity to take th