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The Liberal government has outlawed another 324 firearm varieties — guns it says belong on the battlefield, not in the hands of hunters or sport shooters.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau did not commit to holding a national inquiry on systemic racism in policing on Thursday morning even as he acknowledged the pain of First Nations mothers who have had to bury their children after an interaction with police.

The long-winged seabird named Wisdom, a Laysan albatross, returned to Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge at the northwestern edge of the Hawaiian Archipelago and laid what experts estimate may be her 60th egg, the Pacific Region of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service said in a Facebook post this week.

British Columbia Premier David Eby says his fellow premiers and the federal government have hatched a game plan to fight U.S. tariffs, with conservative premiers lobbying Republican counterparts, left-leaning provincial leaders courting the Democrats, and Ottawa focusing on president-elect Donald Trump.

Canada’s Transport Minister Anita Anand vows to work with Indigenous nations to update health studies on contamination at a Transport Canada dock in Fort Chipewyan.

A growing body of evidence, showing that Canada’s most common insecticides are more dangerous to human health than previously thought, has not been fully assessed by this country’s pesticide regulator, Canada’s National Observer has found.

It’s a macabre picture: tombs, headstones and wreaths, lovingly selected by family members, floating into the oblivion of the ocean, and with them the remains of loved ones uprooted from their final resting place. Some are dragged back to land, washed up on beaches on the Grenadian island of Carriacou, transforming the beautiful Caribbean shoreline into a chaotic graveyard.

Alberta's oil and gas producers spent $769 million cleaning up old wells in 2023, a $73 million increase from the prior year, according to a new report.

Alberta Technology Minister Nate Glubish says he's hoping to see $100 billion worth of artificial intelligence data centres under construction within the next five years.

The sprawling, windowless warehouses that hold rows of high-speed servers powering almost everything the world does on phones and computers are increasingly becoming fixtures of the American landscape, popping up in towns, cities and suburbs across the United States.

One of the key issues in negotiations has been a push to expand delivery to the weekend, but the two sides are at odds over how to staff the expansion.

The federal government says it will spend up to $1 billion to build public computing infrastructure for the Canadian artificial intelligence sector, part of a $2 billion commitment outlined in this spring’s federal budget.

The federal government could soon face another court challenge over the carbon price from the Confederacy of Treaty Six First Nations.

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that global immunization efforts have saved more than 154 million lives over the past five decades. However, extreme weather and global warming can destroy crucial vaccine stocks, impede transport and distribution and reduce effectiveness, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change.

The estimated mortality rate for released chinook can reach up to 40 per cent depending on the fishing tactics, gear, and injuries from over-handling, the study found.