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The United Nations and Pakistan issued an appeal on Tuesday, August 30, 2022, for $160 million in emergency funding to help millions affected by record−breaking floods that have killed more than 1,160 people since mid−June.

The U.K. is leading the way in vertical farming, a more sustainable way to grow herbs, salads and soft fruits year-round.

Canada’s five largest banks all risk being kicked out of a United Nations net-zero banking club unless they can develop credible climate plans by next summer.

B.C.’s old-growth forests are still in jeopardy despite the province’s pledge to work with Indigenous nations to temporarily ban logging in specific areas, a new report by Stand.earth finds.

To correct mistakes from the past regarding the climate crisis, Elders must be consulted, says National Chief of the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples Elmer St. Pierre.

The Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario is sitting down with the province’s education ministry and school board representatives to hash out a collective deal that ETFO’s Karen Brown hopes can address some of the inequities COVID-19 made worse.

The use of facial recognition technology as a security tool on Parliament Hill would pose substantial legal, privacy and human rights risks — and might even be unlawful, says a study prepared for the parliamentary security unit.

The federal Liberal government says hundreds of additional staff have been added in recent months to address long wait times and backlogs at Canadian airports as well as passport and immigration offices.

International Trade Minister Mary Ng says Canada is formally initiating a challenge of "unwarranted and unfair" U.S. duties on Canadian softwood lumber.

Acknowledging that Quebecers are among the highest taxed people in Canada, the two top parties running in Quebec's election campaign held competing news conferences in the provincial capital on Monday to promise income tax cuts if they are elected on Oct. 3.

Despite the test launch of NASA's new moon rocket being postponed on Monday, August 29, 2022, morning, Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne said it was "still a good day for Canada."

The familiar ingredients of a warming world were in place: searing temperatures, hotter air holding more moisture, extreme weather getting wilder, melting glaciers, people living in harm’s way, and poverty. They combined in vulnerable Pakistan to create unrelenting rain and deadly flooding.

For the second time in a year, the federal government is invoking a little-known 1977 energy treaty between Canada and the United States in an effort to prevent a federal court from shutting down the Line 5 pipeline.

This year was the first tree-planting season where B.C. made it mandatory to plant ones adapted to slightly warmer climates.

Over a fifth of people in Alberta likely struggled to afford food last year, a recent analysis by University of Toronto researchers has shown.