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Preventing attacks where vehicles are used as weapons is difficult, but certain urban design measures might help avert them, an expert says.

Brazilian federal agents aboard three helicopters descended on an illegal mining site on Tuesday in the Amazon rainforest. They were met with gunfire, and the shooters escaped, leaving behind an increasingly familiar find for authorities: Starlink internet units.

Algoma Steel releases more cancer-causing pollutants into the air than most companies in Ontario. But no one realized just how much was coming from the steel mill.

Charlotte Commonda plans to open a new point of service for the community centre in Gatineau, Que., by May to support the Indigenous Peoples who move to the city for school, health care and work.

Forest fires, burst pipelines, and chemical waste are just some of the more than 800 instances of environmental degradation recorded since Russia's invasion began.

Quadra Island's Climate Action Team is launching a food recovery program to tackle climate change and food insecurity in the small coastal community.

"Mandating police to wear body-worn cameras is a transformational decision that will ensure all interactions with officers are objective," Public Safety Minister Mike Ellis said.

The agreement allows the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation to request the documents from the provincial Vital Statistics Branch. Until now, the documents were available to family members, while researchers and others needed to obtain special permission for any given document.

The Biden administration’s approval of a massive oil development in northern Alaska commits the U.S. to yet another decades-long crude project even as scientists urgently warn that only a halt to more fossil fuel emissions can stem climate change.

Two people were killed and nine others were injured on Monday, March 13, 2023, afternoon when a pickup truck plowed into pedestrians who were walking beside a road in the eastern Quebec town of Amqui, police said.

A committee of MPs is calling on the federal government to issue an overarching annual national-security threat assessment and provide more information on how to prevent cyber attacks, particularly from Russia.

The Jesuits of Canada released a list of priests and brothers on Monday, March 13, 2023, who they say were "credibly accused" of sexually abusing minors over the past 70 years.

Senator Yuen Pau Woo questions whether a foreign influence registry might become "a modern form of Chinese exclusion," and says angry reaction to his suggestion proves his point about racial profiling and stigmatization.

New polling suggests the majority of Canadians want the federal government to call an independent inquiry into foreign interference in the last two federal elections, but still feel the country's electoral system is safe.

An unrelenting Cyclone Freddy that is currently battering southern Africa has killed at least 56 people in Malawi and Mozambique since it struck the continent for a second time on Saturday night, authorities in both countries have confirmed.