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The British Columbia government goes up against dozens of health care and pharmaceutical companies in court today in a bid to get certification for a class-action lawsuit over the costs of the opioid crisis.

A federal housing advocate is accusing every level of government in Canada of failing to uphold the Inuit's right to housing — and therefore denying their human rights.

Amidst record-high temperatures, deluges, droughts and wildfires, leaders are convening for another round of United Nations climate talks later this month that seek to curb the centuries-long trend of humans spewing ever more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

One of the world’s largest icebergs is drifting beyond Antarctic waters, after being grounded for more than three decades, according to the British Antarctic Survey.

A spill of surface runoff from a containment pond at Suncor Energy’s Fort Hills oilsands site may have spanned more than a year, the Alberta Energy Regulator has announced.

As climate-driven deaths rise, a report finds only 23 per cent of countries use climate data to inform their public health strategies.

Cat Lake First Nation leadership is voicing their opposition to Queen’s Park over failing in their duty to consult, conduct proper environmental assessments and keep treaty obligations.

A federal committee is forcing the president of the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) to testify for a second time on the aftermath of huge tailings pond leaks at Imperial Oil's Kearl facility earlier this year.

Formal talks are expected to begin today between Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and two top heads of the European Union.

Police in Richmond, B.C., say multiple charges have been laid against a 34-year-old man allegedly involved in a September 2022 home invasion where thieves made off with $10 million in cryptocurrency.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau kicked off a two-day summit with the top two heads of the European Union on Thursday, Nov. 23, 2023, night in a small brewpub on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean in Newfoundland and Labrador's capital city of St. John's.

On the cusp of the COP28 climate talks, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres visited frozen-but-rapidly melting Antarctica on Thursday, Nov. 23, 2023, and said intense action must be taken at the conference where countries will address their commitments to lowering emissions of planet-warming gases.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre released a blueprint for how he would respond to an uptick in hate crimes on Thursday, Nov. 23, 2023, while the Liberals accused him of being irresponsible for prematurely labelling an explosion at a Canada-U.S. border checkpoint a "terrorist attack" the day before.

A British Columbia cabinet minister says she mistakenly dropped a memo to herself describing a "big and shiny" affordability measure that mysteriously ended up in the hands of the Opposition BC United party.

Alberta's energy regulator says it won't reconsider approvals for Suncor to expand an oilsands mine into a wetland once considered for environmental protection.