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Experts say a tangled web of factors is driving global spikes in dengue, but one culprit stands out — climate change.

As a working group to find common ground on energy policies gets underway, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is doubling down on her fight against the federal government.

In general, 60 per cent of respondents expressed the view that all the Greenbelt land should remain safeguarded. Among all voters, one in five individuals advocated for the allocation of certain portions of land, while a mere 12 per cent supported making a substantial amount of land available for development, the poll suggests. 

The analysis by industry group Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers of the most recently available federal production and emissions data shows emissions from the country's conventional oil and natural gas sector fell 24 per cent in the last decade.

Ford says Housing Minister Steve Clark has a tough job and will remain part of the team as the government tries to fulfil its promise to build 1.5 million homes over 10 years.

People whose homes were destroyed by the wildfire in and around West Kelowna, B.C., are being contacted to schedule escorted bus visits to view the damage.

Two different federal infrastructure programs have provided funding for more than 43,000 electric vehicle chargers since 2016, but fewer than one in five of them are actually operational, new data show.

British Columbia finished last fiscal year $700 million in the black, after forecasts swung between multi-billion-dollar deficits and surpluses.

The woman accusing former New Democrat MP Roméo Saganash of sexual assault is going public, saying she wants to support others.

A state of emergency in the Northwest Territories has been extended until Sept. 11 and its premier says she understands the frustration of those forced from their homes.

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.