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Fine Gael Senator Michael D'Arcy is resigning his seat in the Seanad to head up a lobby group for financial investment companies.  r D'Arcy was Minister of State in the Department of Finance with responsibility for Financial Services and Insurance before he lost his Dáil seat in the election. In a…

In a letter Friday night, Netflix responded to several questions posed by a group of GOP senators about its upcoming TV series adaptation of the Chinese sci-fi trilogy “The Three-Body Problem,” after the series’ author appeared to express support for China’s treatment of the Uighur minority. And the company’s main…

OTTAWA — Veteran forward Bobby Ryan was placed on waivers by the Ottawa Senators on Friday for the purpose of a buyout. Ryan won the Masterton Trophy, the NHL's award for perseverance, on Sept. 7 after publicly sharing his battle with alcohol issues. OTTAWA — Veteran forward Bobby Ryan was…

The prime minister says the RCMP's policy requiring front-line officers to wear properly fitting N95 respirator masks amounts to discrimination and "shouldn't have happened," because the rule disfavours officers who keep beards for religious reasons.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during a news conference on Sept. 16. On Friday, Trudeau said the RCMP's policy…

Barbara Rodriguez  |  The 19th This story was published in partnership with The 19th, a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom reporting on gender, politics and policy.Sarah McBride made it a point to vote in person during  Delaware's primary earlier this month. This particular trip to the polls was special: The 30-year-old voted…

Republican senators have sent a letter to Netflix chief content officer and co-CEO Ted Sarandos pushing back against the streaming service's upcoming series "The Three-Body Problem." Netflix announced September 1 that "Game of Thrones" creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are adapting Liu Cixin's science-fiction trilogy "The Three-Body Problem" for the streamer with the help of "The Terror: Infamy"…

Nicholas Wu   | USA TODAY WASHINGTON — Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, forcefully pushed back on assertions about COVID-19 made by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., during a Wednesday hearing, telling the senator he misconstrued the facts and had "done that repeatedly in the past." During a hearing before…

Enough GOP senators have fallen in line behind Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to confirm a Supreme Court nominee from President Donald Trump before the election.Just two Republicans—Susan Collins (Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), some of the Senate's most vulnerable members—oppose the upper chamber filling the vacancy left by…

Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday would not promise a vote on President Donald Trump's nomination to the Supreme Court before the election.McConnell said he would wait for the person to come out of Senate Judiciary Committee hearings and then set the date for the vote on the Senate…

By Stephanie LevitzThe Canadian PressTue., Sept. 22, 2020timer3 min. readupdateArticle was updated 1 day agoOTTAWA—Independent senators are renewing their calls for the Liberal government to move forward with legislation to officially change how the Senate functions. The majority of senators are no longer affiliated with a political party, but the…