Presidential candidate Sen. Miriam Defensor Santiago called on the administration for allegedly denying justice to former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo for repeatedly refusing Arroyo’s appeals for...
MANILA—None of Sen. Grace Poe’s rivals in the 2016 election pressured Commission on Elections (Comelec) officials to disqualify the senator from running in next year’s election,...
MANILA—Joseph Scott Pemberton, the US Marine who was imprisoned for the killing of Filipino transgender woman Jeffrey “Jennifer” Laude has been given a prison number by...
MANILA—Twelve government officials were sacked yesterday by the Office of the Ombudsman for their involvement in the pork barrel scam. National Livelihood Development Corp. (NLDC) employees...
MANILA—The Italian government expressed support to the Philippines’ legal appeals over the disputed West Philippine Sea filed before the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague....
HALIFAX—A union’s snub of a government ultimatum over a contract vote saw Nova Scotia’s deputy premier adopt a more conciliatory tone Thursday. In a letter sent...
WINNIPEG—Manitoba is promising to cut greenhouse gas emissions by one-third in the next 15 years and bring in a cap-and-trade system for the province’s 20 largest...
TORONTO—The minister who oversees Ontario’s Children’s Aid Societies says she’s disappointed a ministerial directive that caseworkers check the child abuse register isn’t always being followed—so she’ll...
TORONTO—Canada’s six biggest banks saw their profits climb higher over the past year, despite a sluggish economy, a slowdown in consumer borrowing and rock-bottom interest rates,...
EDMONTON—An Edmonton man did not tell his wife for several days that he held the winning Lotto Max ticket for $30 million. Mauro Bagnariol did, however,...