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New legislation that takes aim at rapidly expanding short-term rentals in British Columbia will increase badly needed long-term rental housing, Premier David Eby said after the act was introduced in the legislature on Monday, Oct. 16, 2023.

Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne says he wishes Canadian grocers would be more forthcoming with the public about their plans to stabilize prices.

A wave of high-profile mergers and acquisitions in the Canadian oilpatch is a sign of an industry that is flush with cash and increasingly confident in the short- and medium-term outlook for fossil fuels, experts say.

Two newspapers in British Columbia are publishing their last editions this week, eliminating coverage by community papers for a large swath of the province's northeast.

Floods and storms accounted for 95 per cent of recorded child displacement between 2016 and 2021, according to the first-of-its-kind analysis by UNICEF and the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. The rest — more than two million children — were displaced by wildfires and drought.

As then fisheries minister Joyce Murray prepares to announce her plan to transition the remaining fish farms out of B.C. waters, the industry is working hard to ensure they can stay. 

Environmental advocates caution that the Greenbelt, a vast protected region containing crucial natural areas and farmland, is still not fully safeguarded from the provincial government's construction plans.

Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston and New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs were in Ottawa on Monday for an announcement, where Wilkinson said the federal government has finalized a joint policy statement with the two provinces.

It’s no secret oilsands companies intend to ramp up production despite the rapidly worsening impacts of the climate crisis, and one longtime industry executive laid out his arguments for doing just that at a federal committee Monday.

John Vaillant, author of an acclaimed book connecting fire and climate change, reflects on the testimony of top oil execs in the House of Commons.

Any future changes would have to go through the legislature, and could not just be done by regulation – as the Tories did last year.

The legislation, formerly known as Bill C-69, was reviled in the oil-and-gas producing province, where industry leaders saw it as a roadblock to infrastructure development.

On Sept. 17, 2020, the Sipekne'katik First Nation issued five lobster licences to its members, saying they could trap and sell their catch outside the federally regulated season.

The federal New Democrats plan to make pharmacare a central issue in the next election if the Liberals do not meet the bar the opposition party has set for legislation to reduce the cost of prescription drugs.

Canada's ongoing political battle between climate action and the economic benefits of the oil and gas industry will be on full display today as the CEO of oilsands giant Suncor appears at a House of Commons committee.