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The wildfire that has been rampaging through the Shuswap region of the B.C. Interior has also sparked a fight over whether local Opposition MLAs have been encouraging residents to disobey firefighters, or if the government is refusing to listen to critics of its response to the fires.

Premier Danielle Smith is using a recent alert urging Albertans to reduce their electricity use as ammunition in her firefight against the federal government’s regulations to clean up Canada’s power grid by 2035.

After years of nuclear detonations in the Marshall Islands, fallout and forced relocations of communities began a ripple effect: Many Indigenous Marshallese people who had relied on subsistence farming and fishing for 4,000 years suddenly couldn’t trust the safety of their food, becoming reliant on imported and processed foods. And those were the lucky ones.

In recent weeks, the property owner of 765 and 775 Kingston Rd. E. in Ajax, roughly 40 kilometres northeast of Toronto, listed the land for sale. A portion of the property was slated to be turned into a business park rather than homes, the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing said in a statement.

The successful bidders include the Newfoundland and Labrador arm of EverWind Fuels, based in Nova Scotia, and World Energy GH2, a company whose directors include seafood billionaire John Risley and Brendan Paddick, a friend of Premier Andrew Furey.

Guilbeault had said because Alberta company Suncor wants to focus more on oil and gas production, it furthers the case for a federal emissions cap.

J. David Wake has found Clark failed to oversee the land selection process, which led to the private interests of certain developers being furthered improperly.

Recent statements by the CEO of a major oilsands company further the case for federal regulations to cap greenhouse gas emissions in the oil and gas sector, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said.

An artwork by renowned Canadian artist Tom Thomson at the National Gallery in Ottawa was splattered with paint on Tuesday, August 29, 2023, as part of a protest against the federal government's response to wildfires.

The BC Centre for Disease Control has detected Canada's first known case of a new COVID-19 variant that has swiftly circled the globe, in what one expert says is a reminder the virus never went away.

Crews in Hawaii have all but finished searching for victims of the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century, authorities said on Tuesday, August 29, 2023, and it is unclear how many people perished.

"They pulled the rug out from under us," said John Rimmer, mayor of Caroline, where the United Conservative government's move has stranded a solar project that would have contributed at least 15 per cent of the community's municipal budget.

Lightning strikes have sparked dozens of new wildfires in British Columbia, as thunderstorms brought mixed blessings to the province's battle against its worst fire season on record.

A new complaint sent to the FBI’s white-collar crime division and filed with U.S. financial regulators alleges Canadian oil company ReconAfrica has used environmental claims to mislead investors.

A new study based on breeding bird surveys found that grassland birds reacted even more negatively to corn and soybean fields than they did to land used for oil and gas development.