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Atlantic Coast climate reporter Cloe Logan has been chosen for the coveted Metcalf Institute’s Annual Science Immersion Fellowship for Journalists. The fellowship is highly competitive, with Metcalf receiving applications from more than 200 prospective attendees representing 65 different countries this year. 

The president of the Canadian Medical Association says the new health funding deal struck between provinces and the federal government represents the biggest nominal injection of cash into Canada's health system, but that won't be enough to fix what's broken.

Alberta's new climate plan drew criticism this week for its lack of interim emissions reduction targets, but proponents of carbon capture and storage technology say it's important to be realistic about how quickly major projects can be deployed.

Toronto MP Han Dong is suing Global News and its parent company, Corus Entertainment, over stories he says portrayed him as a "traitor" and a knowing participant in Chinese interference in Canada.

The Defence Department's procurement chief is hoping to have a better sense by the end of the year as to how much Canada will have to pay to build a new fleet of warships for the Royal Canadian Navy.

It has been two years, but University of British Columbia architecture student Katie Theall can vividly recall the"surreal moment" when their team learned it had received a site on the Vancouver campus to build a "carbon-minimal" student space.

More than a trillion insects are raised each year as high-protein, low-carbon animal feed, but the practice might have an ethical blind spot.

Imperial Oil’s president and CEO described the failure to alert downstream communities to toxic oilsands tailings leaks as a “communication breakdown” during his testimony on Parliament Hill Thursday.

The ice cream giant has signed onto an open letter detailing allegations against the Community-Industry Response Group — also known as the "pipeline police" — and urging Canada, British Columbia and the RCMP to suspend all of its activities.

Underwater forests represent an average of $500 billion annually in benefits to commercial fisheries, ocean pollution removal and carbon absorption, a new international study shows.

Doug Tallamy, the wildlife ecologist and entomologist who urges home gardeners to join forces and create a pollinator-friendly “Homegrown National Park,” is now bringing kids into the effort.

The federal government has approved a contentious container port expansion project at Roberts Bank south of Vancouver, drawing swift condemnation from environmentalists.

The shíshálh Nation on the Sunshine Coast is the latest of several First Nations to announce results of their research into children who went missing while attending residential schools.

The job action taken by members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada could amount to a complete halt of the tax season, slowdowns at the border and pauses to new EI, immigration and passport applications.

The new numbers have been in development for months but come after a recent report from the parliamentary budget officer on the economic costs of the carbon price. That report did not specifically equate the cost of the price on carbon to the costs of climate change itself.