‘Lipstick on a pig’: Environmental groups take aim at Eby’s good news climate announcement
The B.C. government has a pattern of issuing climate announcements when it approves fossil fuel expansion projects, say environmental groups.
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Advocates ‘delighted’ as Canada gets school meals
The federal funding is a first for Canada. Unlike every other G7 country, Canadian students have long relied on a patchwork of programs advocates have criticized for leaving many children hungry.
Carbon tax tensions boil over on day of protest
A giant inflatable sheep mingled with profanity-laced signs about the federal government, high food prices, inadequate housing and conspiracy theories as people gathered in Ottawa on Monday to protest the carbon price hike.
Premiers are using the carbon price increase to further their own political interests, Trudeau says
Trudeau was responding to Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey's call for an "emergency meeting of leaders," just the latest of several last-ditch provincial efforts to forestall a higher fuel levy.
N.L. premier asks Trudeau for meeting to discuss carbon price alternatives
Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey penned a letter to Trudeau over the weekend asking for an "emergency meeting of leaders."
Tourists expected to swarm Niagara Falls for solar eclipse
The chance to observe a natural celestial spectacle alongside one of the Seven Wonders of North America is expected to draw about a million people to Niagara Falls, Ont., for next month's solar eclipse, the city's mayor said on Saturday as he urged community members to prepare for the largest influx of tourists in local history.
Blame climate change for longer lasting, hotter, more hurtful heat waves: study
Climate change is making giant heat waves crawl slower across the globe and they are baking more people for a longer time with higher temperatures over larger areas, a new study finds.
Quebec's fire season starts early with small blaze in Oka provincial park
Stéphane Caron said the 2.1-hectare blaze was put out by local fire departments, with firefighters from SOPFEU arriving Sunday morning to extinguish the remaining smoky spots.
Rescuers hope this week's tides will help save orphaned B.C. whale
Work to coax the two-year-old Bigg's killer whale over a sandbar and into the open ocean started after its mother died more than a week ago when she beached at the lagoon and could not be saved.
The federal carbon price goes up today. Here's what it will mean for you
The price change on April 1 affects the consumer levy, which applies in every province and territory except British Columbia, Quebec and Northwest Territories.
Standing up to Enbridge over Line 5 pipeline
Bad River Band was in the middle of a legal fight with Canada-based Enbridge over its contentious Line 5 pipeline, which carries oil and gas from Alberta to Ontario while crossing the American border.
Logging in watershed frustrates B.C. island residents
Quadra Island's Copper Bluffs residents are angry Mosaic Forest Management is logging sensitive areas in nearby watersheds — a move they believe puts the community at greater risk from drought and wildfire.
Climate breakdown is happening too fast for migrating birds
The early bird would get the worm, but migration timing isn’t matching up.
NDP calls for inquiry into oil and gas price gouging
The NDP is pressuring the government to order an inquiry into corporate price gouging in the oil and gas sector, as the Conservatives point to the carbon tax as a reason for the cost of living crisis. Are Justin Trudeau's Liberals losing room to manoeuvre?
The energy transition is essential and workers need support: poll
Most Canadians believe the energy transition will be challenging but necessary and want solutions to support them through it, says a new poll.