Analysis

Broke energy company able shift environmental costs to the Orphan Well Association but then buy back assets under a different company name.

What's behind this week's “little surge” in COVID-19 cases in Ontario? Premier Doug Ford has said if cases don't begin to decline again soon, he may have to reintroduce restrictions.

Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke is a Canadian business rock star who ⁠— with his owlish eyeglasses and golfer’s caps ⁠— resembles a Starbucks-mooching slacker.

As income loss due to the COVID-19 pandemic stretches into a third month, both landlord and tenant groups are bracing for even more households to fall into rent arrears. That could lead to a tidal wave of evictions once a tribunal to deal with them is reopened.

Students can now apply for targeted pandemic relief, but confusion lingers over eligibility requirements.

Canada’s National Observer and CTV News teamed up to use this map to tell a story about the pressure building on the country’s politicians and public health authorities to find out why COVID-19 is wreaking such havoc in communities such as Montreal North.

Canada’s post-secondary institutions rely on the significantly higher tuition fees paid by international students, whose numbers may be sharply curtailed when academic life returns to some kind of normal during this pandemic.

The death by suicide of a top NYC doctor highlights a dire emergency affecting front-line health care workers around the world.

Ontario's COVID-19 testing program is still lagging behind other provinces after more than a month of issues. Though there are early signs of hope, the province can't safely restart its economy until it understands the full scope of the outbreak, experts say.

The Ontario government says it has acted quickly and often to stop the spread of the virus in long-term care. But B.C. acted weeks earlier, and critics say key problems should have been addressed a month ago.

In the epicenter of America's coronavirus pandemic, pro-Trump conspiracy theorists started a trending hashtag aimed at downplaying the severity of the crisis.

Canadian provinces have targeted their COVID-19 relief in different ways. National Observer looked at who gets what based on where they live.

Canada's managed forests, and the wood taken out of them each year, have become one of our country's largest -- and least understood -- sources of climate pollution. Here's an illustrated guide to what's going on ...

There’s a simple step that social media companies could take to make it easier to identify harmful coronavirus misinformation — but three months into the outbreak, they’re still not doing it.