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A statement from the Ministry of Energy says cryptocurrency miners consume large amounts of electricity to constantly run high-powered computers, while creating very few jobs or economic opportunities.

Tom Kmiec criticized the sharp increase in temporary residents in Canada, as a large number of potential immigrants compete for few permanent resident opportunities. 

A team of about two dozen people is preparing the planned landing area for the complex rescue of an orphaned killer whale calf trapped in a remote tidal lagoon off northwest Vancouver Island.

Canadian Security Intelligence Service director David Vigneault is expected to clarify whether stark CSIS conclusions contained in briefing materials were actually conveyed to government officials.

An Alberta environmental group opposes a solar power project over concerns it would damage antelope habitat and block their migration.

It's just the latest example of a deepening fissure between Smith's United Conservative Party government and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberals. 

Having a safe climate is becoming more of a human right globally with this week's European court decision that says countries must better protect people from climate change, something warming-hit residents of the Global South long knew, said former Ireland President Mary Robinson.

A community-based approach to restoration combined with an ingenious device can bring back reefs traumatized by dynamite fishing.

The federal carbon tax took a beating from polar opposite sides of the political spectrum this week at annual conservative and progressive conferences held just blocks from each other in Ottawa.

Indigenous leaders, climate activists and their allies from across the continent descended on Toronto on Thursday in an attempt to hold RBC leadership accountable for the bank’s decision to finance increased oil and gas expansion at the expense of local communities.

Residents argue that the project, spearheaded by James Dick Construction Ltd., poses environmental risks, threatens local water sources, endangers wildlife habitats and raises serious safety and health concerns for the community.

Separately but simultaneously, Canada's federal Conservative and NDP leaders laid out their respective visions for how best to defeat Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. 

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has introduced legislation to gatekeep and if necessary veto any future deal struck between municipalities and the federal government.

Homeless Indigenous women in the North do not feel well-protected by the RCMP and instead face violence and discrimination by police, a new report from the Yellowknife Women's Society has found.

In a classified interview with the commission of inquiry in February, Trudeau said leaks suggesting otherwise were extremely damaging to Canadians' confidence in the democratic process.