News

Investors including the U.K.’s biggest pension scheme agree to back calls for the oil giant to set bigger emissions targets.

Known by some as “the father of adaptation” to climate change, Ian Burton helped create and expand knowledge of this important concept for five decades in this country. Now, he is being recognized for his groundbreaking work with a 2023 Order of Canada appointment. 

Political leaders, police, border agents and auto industry executives will be called together next month to try and come up with better ways to slow the growth in auto theft plaguing most major Canadian cities.

The union that represents Canadian diplomats abroad says Global Affairs Canada should consider boosting compensation for those posted to the United States because they face increased risk of gun crime and difficulty accessing health care.

An incident at Burnaby's Parkland fuel refinery caused the "strong chemical odour" around the region

In Lethbridge County, dry and windy conditions have been known to stir up dust clouds, obscuring the vision of drivers on local roads and filling irrigation canals to the brim with dirt.

The announcement comes five months after the last cabinet retreat in Charlottetown where Miller and Housing Minister Sean Fraser began floating the idea of capping international student visas.

One of the federal government's top priorities for the year ahead involves attracting new international grocers to Canada to expand competition and drive down prices, Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne said on Sunday as a cabinet retreat was about to begin in Montreal.

Zooplankton vital for fish on B.C.’s southern coast are lining their guts with synthetic microfibres shed and flushed out to sea when we wash our clothes, causing big ripple effects for marine life.

A mountain of used clothes appeared in Chile’s desert. Then it went up in flames.

Approval of a contentious radioactive waste facility in Deep River, Ont., is bringing flaws in Canada’s nuclear waste management to the fore, say area politicians.

There is no dispute the overheating climate is already causing loss and damage in the Arctic, but because Inuit in Canada technically live in a rich, developed country, they are ineligible to tap the funds to compensate them. But now, the Inuit Circumpolar Council is calling for change.

Critics are calling for a public inquiry into the actions of the Alberta Energy Regulator after documents surfaced suggesting the agency downplayed the industry's environmental liabilities and withheld information on those costs.

North American natural gas prices continued to drop this week, in spite of frigid winter conditions that gripped much of the continent.

A new government-commissioned report says Ontario should develop related policies and communicate its vision clearly to the public about a transition to electrification.