Plan ahead to make sure this year's Thanksgiving holiday is safe during the COVID-19 pandemic, Canada's top public health officer urged on Sunday, October 4, 2020, as case counts continued to soar in several parts of the country.
Environment Canada predicts the upcoming decades will transform Canada’s climate, forcing farmers to re-evaluate everything from which seeds to buy to which pastures their livestock graze. That’s a huge challenge for farmers with no time to pore over scientific studies and models charting how the climate crisis will transform their land.
Donald Trump approved Keystone XL, but Joe Biden says he’d cancel it. Meanwhile, Alberta has invested $1.5 billion that it likely won’t get back if the pipeline fails. Experts say it's a high-risk gamble.
As a child, about 300 wild salmon, carefully packed into a chest freezer after each fishing season, sustained Kukpi7 Judy Wilson and her family for the year ahead. “We had one freezer for salmon, one freezer for wild meat, and my parents had a ranch farm. We were independent,” said Kukpi7 Wilson, now chief of the Neskonlith Indian Band, and Secretary-Treasurer of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs.
Facing a looming court-imposed deadline, the federal government will reintroduce on Monday, October 5, 2020, legislation to amend Canada's law on medical assistance in dying.
Canada is running out of time to prevent a major resurgence of COVID-19, the country's chief public health officer said on Saturday, October 3, 2020, as its two most populous provinces continued to report some of their highest daily case counts in months.
Arguments over the extension of the environmental assessment certificate for a natural gas pipeline in B.C. resumed in court on Friday, October 2, 2020, with lawyers for Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs telling a judge an evaluation is needed on the potential risk of violence to Indigenous women and girls.
The perils of America's fractured, partisan approach to the COVID-19 pandemic finally caught up on Friday, October 2, 2020, with U.S. President Donald Trump, now infected with the very virus that for months has threatened to end his tumultuous tenure in the White House.
Industry leaders also said the Canadian playing field has become more level after Alberta and Ontario ended government rebates on solar energy upgrades.
The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed Toronto’s plan to consider a switch to ranked ballots for the 2022 municipal election off course, with city council voting 18-6 to instead look to introduce the reform in time for 2026.
Labour leaders are calling on Ottawa to provide immediate financial aid and rapid viral testing to an airline industry devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and wife Sophie are sending their best wishes to Donald Trump and his wife Melania after the pair tested positive for COVID-19.