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Ottawa is upgrading climate "comfort" centres in Nova Scotia to provide people with beds, medical supplies and generators when natural disasters strike. Climate advocates want to see much more done to prepare.

The party has less than $1 million left on a $22-million election loan from 2021, and recent fundraising efforts should allow it to pay off the debt in the coming months, said NDP director Anne McGrath.

The Insurance Bureau of Canada's annual tally is topped by wildfires in the Okanagan and Shuswap areas of B.C., which cost $720 million. 

New York State Police said one person died and 11 others were injured after a Skyway Coach Line tour bus crashed on U.S. Highway 87 while travelling from Montreal to New York City on Friday.

A legal challenge to Saskatchewan's new law requiring parental consent if children under 16 want to change their names or pronouns at school is back in court this week. New Brunswick enacted a similar measure last year, and other provinces are looking at doing the same.

An alliance of Quebec unions representing 420,000 public sector workers will take a proposed contract to its members for approval, after a fall and winter marked by massive strikes and protests.

Nikkei Asia, a Japanese news outlet, reports Honda is considering building both a vehicle and battery plant in the country as part of efforts to catch up in the electric vehicle market.

The battle between a Canadian mining company and Panama over one of the richest copper-gold mines in the Americas is headed to international arbitration – exposing Canada’s double standard when it comes to promoting free trade in the Global South.

Attention and controversy is on the rise about climate solutions that aim to scale up and speed the ocean’s natural biological or chemical processes to capture and store C02.

A legal fight is ramping up over who should manage Alaska's dwindling salmon populations — and who gets access to them.

Azerbaijan's ecology minister has been named to lead the United Nations' annual climate talks later this year, prompting concern from some climate activists over his former ties to the state oil company.

Just six months into her role as government House leader, Karina Gould has redefined what it means to be a prime minister's chief attack dog

A conservation group says its latest purchase of exclusive hunting rights in a British Columbia rainforest is a major step toward protecting the area's wildlife, but hunters say the move is an "abuse" of the licensing system.

A pesky invasive plant found in many areas of Yukon could be put to use helping clean contaminated water from mines, research suggests.

Alberta Wildfire says it saw an average number of wildfires last year, but the area burned across the province set a record.