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While no one explicitly told developers that Ontario planned to open up the protected Greenbelt for housing last year, the government telegraphed that message to builders through actions – and silence, the province's integrity commissioner found.

Ryan Kelly was already a heat pump advocate when he installed one in his almost century-old home a couple of years ago, but even he was surprised at how well it performed during a cold snap last winter.

Increasingly, land is shifting into the hands of billionaires.

Environmental groups are hoping a complaint sent to Competition Bureau Canada alleging Enbridge is misleading customers will force the energy giant to stop telling people gas is the cheapest way to heat homes and instead inform them of the benefits of switching to electric.

Vancouver Island University experts are offering community insights on how to take individual climate action and combat eco-anxiety this fall after much of Canada saw flames aggravated by global warming this summer.

Canada’s oil and gas industry says the costly technology it plans to use to reduce its climate footprint requires more investments from the federal government. If governments lend a hand now, the industry maintains the technology will become more affordable over time as more projects proceed, but a new analysis casts doubt on that claim.

Ontario's new housing minister says the government has "fully implemented" 21 of its housing affordability task force's recommendations, but his office won't say which ones.

On Wednesday, the Alberta Utilities Commission released a series of interim information requests that those proposing new projects will be required to answer.

The longer "Freedom Convoy" demonstrators blockaded Ottawa streets in protest of COVID-19 public health restrictions last year, the more volatile the relationship between police and protesters became, an Ottawa police officer testified on Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023.

Annick deGooyer knew that her family's home of more than 20 years had been destroyed by the McDougall Creek wildfire that consumed scores of properties in West Kelowna, B.C., about three weeks ago.

All that stands of the Scotch Creek — Lee Creek firehall in the British Columbia Interior’s Shuswap region is a set of blackened stairs leading to a pile of rubble.

For Emily Brown, it feels pretty good to be Conservative.

"The sun is beating down on this metal box.”

If armed with the right knowledge, Canadians can take action to reduce their homes’ vulnerability to extreme heat, wildfires and flooding by using natural tools to adapt to climate change.

Environmental advocates are outraged by the Ford government’s suggestion that additional land in Ontario’s protected Greenbelt may be reviewed for possible housing development.