Politics

Summer is the time for barbecues, bare feet and beaches – and for residents of two Ontario ridings, byelections.

CALGARY — The federal Conservatives coasted to victory Monday to fill a seat left vacant after MP Bob Benzen called it quits last year.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Biotech entrepreneur and Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy is slated to headline a GOP fundraiser in South Carolina as he returns to campaigning in the first-in-the-South primary state.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service said Monday it is ending its decades-old policy of making unannounced home and business visits, in an effort to help keep its workers safe and to combat scammers who pose as IRS agents.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former dean at the University of Southern California was sentenced to 1 1/2 years of home confinement on Monday for bribing a Los Angeles County supervisor in exchange for renewal of a lucrative contract.

Edmonton's mayor has announced joint funding from the municipal and federal governments to support the planting of 1.5 million trees. Amarjeet Sohi says $47.

EDGARTOWN, Mass. (AP) — Former President Barack Obama's personal chef has drowned near the family's home on Martha’s Vineyard.

WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government has hired a firm to recruit family doctors in a move to address physician shortages in the province.

OTTAWA — The government is putting $156 million over three years toward a new three-digit suicide-prevention hotline, Mental Health Minister Carolyn Bennett announced Monday. Starting on Nov.

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A third man has been arrested on federal charges related to the firebombing of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Southern California last year, authorities said Monday.