The federal ethics law has put a crimp in Jane Philpott's plan to put her experience as a former minister of health and Indigenous services to work for the benefit of a northern Ontario First Nation.
Greenpeace activists scaled the European Union’s new headquarters in Brussels on Thursday, December 12, 2019, and unfurled a huge banner warning of a “climate emergency,” hours before the bloc’s leaders gather for a summit focused on plans to combat global warming.
President Donald Trump lashed out at 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg on Thursday, December 12, 2019, a day after she was named by Time as its Person of the Year, calling her selection “ridiculous."
A Quebec government plan to kill wolves that get too close to an endangered woodland caribou herd is raising concern among environmentalists, who accuse the government of sidestepping the true problem of habitat loss.
Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg said she was surprised and honoured on Wednesday, December 11, 2019, to learn she had been named Time’s youngest “Person of the Year,” saying the accolade deserved to be shared by others in the global movement she helped inspire.
Protests led by Indigenous leaders shut down the main hall of COP25 in Madrid on Wednesday. In an unprecedented event, about 500 people stormed the area outside the high-level negotiations decrying the lack of action by assembled governments to address the climate emergency.
Andrew Hayes, interim federal environment and sustainable-development commissioner, described the approach he uncovered as “layering disconnected strategies on more strategies,” and said this was confusing for both government officials and Canadians.
Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou has won an application for more documents to be disclosed as she alleges she faced an abuse of process during her arrest at Vancouver's airport last year.
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney left a meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday, December 10, 2019, with no firm commitments on the five demands he put on the table but with an air of accomplishment nonetheless, saying he felt their long-awaited face-to-face meeting was frank and realistic.
Climate shocks and significant deviations from the average temperatures blamed for 16% fishing job loses in New England’s coastal counties, according to new study
“Zero means zero. It sets a marker that we will no longer be using fossil fuels, so it becomes the lens for approving or rejecting projects and policies from now on.”