Billionaire Jeff Bezos blasts off on space travel company's first flight
The founder of Amazon became the second billionaire in over a week to ride his own spacecraft, the Blue Origin…
Category: Canada
Border reopening plan facing roadblock as thousands of border officials consider strike action
Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc says the government is reassured by the contingency planning briefings it has received should Canada…
Students, families stuck in India struggle with travel ban extension
As the ban on travel from India to Canada has been extended again until late August, many students trying to…
Military personnel deployed to provinces to assist wildfire, flood responses
Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan tells Power & Politics that the Canadian Armed Forces has the capacity to send more personnel…
First Nation will search former site of Mohawk Institute Residential School
A First Nation announced plans to search the site of a former indian residential school in Brantford, Ont. Survivors from…
U.S. extends border closure with Canada, Mexico through Aug. 21
Following news that the U.S. will extend its land border closure with Mexico and Canada until Aug. 21, Mexico’s Ambassador…
Herd immunity harder to achieve now because of new variants, says government scientist
Speaking with Power & Politics, Chief Science Advisor of Canada Mona Nemer says that collective immunity is a moving target…
British Columbia declares provincial state of emergency as wildfires grow
Nearly 300 fires are burning across the province, and according to Sarah Hall, an information officer with the BC Wildfire…
B.C. policy-makers urged to embrace controlled burns to reduce wildfire risk
Fire ecologists and Indigenous groups say bureaucratic provincial barriers are hindering their ability to perform prescribed burns and cultural burns…
'Without transparency, we don't get to fully move forward,' says Amita Kuttner
Former Green leadership candidate Amita Kuttner joins Power & Politics to react to the cancellation of a non-confidence vote of…