Unable to hold back tears, the 13-year-old buries her face in her small hands and weeps. Her mother walks up to the podium and embraces her, while the interpreter translates her words from English to Arabic for the crowd of Syrian refugees.
Climate change and the global refugee crisis are inextricably connected. Yet we're ill-prepared we are to deal with the coming climate refugee challenge.
Northern Gateway says it will not fight a Federal Court of Appeal decision in June that overturned its approval on the basis of inadequate First Nations consultation.
In a stinging repudiation of the Harper government, the Federal Court of Appeal quashed the approval of a major pipeline project because its review process ignored concerns of Canada's First Nations.
As the federal Liberals try to come up with a way to price carbon that will appease 13 fractious provinces and territories, a prominent academic has a message for them — don't bother.
Canada needs to scrap the capital gains tax and slash corporate taxes as a way to enhance economic growth, Conservative leadership hopeful Maxime Bernier said Tuesday.
Justin Trudeau's first speech to the United Nations General Assembly included some less-than-subtle references to the politics practiced by people like Donald Trump.
Sure, oil prices are down, and our dollar has sunk even lower post-Brexit, but we have a feminist prime minister who proudly claims that a Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian.
