Politics

OTTAWA — The Trudeau government has appointed former ambassador Deborah Lyons as Canada's Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Tony Wakeham spent his day in the Newfoundland and Labrador house of assembly sitting across from Liberal Premier Andrew Furey as the newly elected Opposition leader.

OTTAWA — The woman who went to court to get an injunction against the "Freedom Convoy" last year faced the protest organizers in criminal court Monday in some of the most combative lines of questioning the trial has seen so far.

HALIFAX — Pleas by Halifax city officials on Monday failed to put the brakes on provincial legislation they say overrides their responsibility to determine urban planning and will transfer development costs on municipal taxpayers.

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump will be back in court Tuesday for his New York civil fraud trial, but a face-to-face showdown with former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen will have to wait.

KINGSTON, Ont. — The federal and Ontario governments are putting nearly $1 billion combined into an electric vehicle battery component plant in eastern Ontario. The up to $2.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican Wisconsin lawmakers working to oust the state's nonpartisan top elections official have admitted that a state Senate vote to fire her last month has no legal effect.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Former Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez announced Monday that he’s running for Congress.

TORONTO — Ontario's municipal affairs and housing minister introduced legislation Monday to return parcels of land to the protected Greenbelt – a move he hoped will close a difficult chapter for the government, though an RCMP investigation still loom

WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal judge overseeing the 2020 election interference case against Donald Trump in Washington imposed a narrow gag order on him on Monday, barring the Republican former president from making statements targeting prosecutors, p