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"We need our new mayor to take bold steps to cut carbon emissions, get Toronto’s climate and environmental plans on track, and protect us during storms, floods and heat waves,” says Sarah Buchanan, campaigns director at Toronto Environmental Alliance. 

The strategy includes $1.6 billion over five years to put the measures in place, said Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault. More details on regional implementation are expected in the coming months following more talks between the federal government, provinces and territories.

In a highly anticipated study released Tuesday, the Competition Bureau says concentration in the grocery industry has increased in recent years with the largest grocers increasing the amount they make on food sales. 

The controversial Line 5 pipeline can keep moving fossil fuels through an Indigenous band's territory in Wisconsin for now, but operations on that property "must cease" on June 16, 2026, a U.S. judge says.

Olivia Chow heads to Toronto city hall today hours after being elected mayor of Canada's most populous city.

Canada and the International Maritime Organization (IMO) need to ban scrubber systems churning out most of the cruise industry's contaminated wastewater and allowing the continued use of dirty heavy oil fuel, despite a huge emissions footprint, say critics.

Politicians are recognizing partisanship like never before. Columnist Max Fawcett joins David to discuss how the growing divide is not just hurting the public perception of politicians but democracy itself.

Ottawa reporter Natasha Bulowski was chosen for a story she submitted, which the judges felt displayed “journalistic talent and understanding of key EU-Canada policy areas.”

Researchers at the University of Michigan suggest their insights might prove useful for helping people who are routinely surrounded by death, such as combat troops and health-care workers.

Parliament ended its spring session last week, sending politicians back to their home ridings. Hot Politics host David Mckie and columnist Max Fawcett talk politics.

Climate change, pests and unsustainable harvesting have left the Canadian forestry industry vulnerable. But as wildfires across the country decimate large swaths of Canada’s remaining forests, a Vancouver non-profit is helping companies find alternatives to pulp and paper-based packaging.

The Calgary-based oil company has provided no details about the attack or which parts of its operations were affected, saying simply in a news release issued late Sunday that it had "experienced a cybersecurity incident."

The Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre says 76,129 square kilometres of forest and other land have burned since Jan. 1. That exceeds the previous record set in 1989 of 75,596 square kilometres, according to the National Forestry Database.

Canada pledged to keep a close eye on tensions in Russia on Saturday, June 24, 2023, as armed rebel mercenaries marched on Moscow before their commander said they were halting their advance.

When it comes to flying, going green may cost you more. And it's going to take a while for the strategy to take off.