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The federal Liberals are poised to rekindle a plan to allow travellers, immigration detainees and others who feel they have been mistreated by Canada’s border agency to complain to an independent body.

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney said on Wednesday, May 18, 2022, he is stepping down as leader of the United Conservative Party after the party announced he had won a leadership review with just 51.4 per cent of votes.

Russia’s Foreign Ministry says it is shutting down CBC/Radio−Canada’s Moscow bureau and revoking the accreditations and visas of its journalists.

Premier Jason Kenney threw Alberta politics into a tailspin on Wednesday when he narrowly won a United Conservative Party leadership review vote only to announce he was quitting the top job anyway.

Ontario’s “extremely worrisome” recent track record on climate has cost the province nearly $10.5 billion in lost revenues, legal fees and compensation for cancelled contracts, according to a new report.

Nearly half of all existing fossil fuel facilities will need to close prematurely to limit global heating to 1.5 C, scientists say.

Canadian mining companies continue to sue developing countries for environmental policies that affect their profitability and often win huge payouts from these poorer countries, a new report states.

Opposition parties are calling on Doug Ford to condemn the Progressive Conservative candidate in Brantford-Brant, Will Bouma, who reportedly oversaw the publication of a church magazine for youth that promoted homophobia and conversion therapy.

Ed Fast said Wednesday he believes Pierre Poilievre's pitch to fire the Bank of Canada governor over the country's inflation rate, which is the highest it’s been in 30 years, hurts the party’s credibility on economic issues. 

Residents of Cortes Island have held off industrial logging since the 90s, but members of the tiny community are remobilizing to prevent the return of Mosaic Forest Management to the island.

David Shanks felt a familiar sense of distress as he learned a video was quickly spreading online depicting a mass shooting in a Buffalo, N.Y., supermarket.

Ottawa’s interim police chief says he did not ask the federal government to invoke the Emergencies Act during the “Freedom Convoy” in February.

Prince Charles and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, began a three-day Canadian tour on Tuesday, May 17, 2022, in St. John’s, N.L., where the prince shared his views on reconciliation with Indigenous people before the couple took part in an emotional healing ceremony.

Percy Casper, 73, spent 10 years as a child at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia.

The European Union’s executive arm moved on Wednesday, May 18, 2022, to jump−start plans for the 27−nation bloc to abandon Russian energy amid the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine, proposing a nearly 300 billion−euro ($315 billion) package that includes more efficient use of fuels and faster rollout of renewable power.