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Raccoons are a main carrier of rabies in the U.S. A government effort wants to distribute millions of tasty vaccines to protect both animals and people.

Leaders from the Gitxaała and Gitanyow First Nations are celebrating a historic victory after the Supreme Court of British Columbia ruled the province’s laws on mining stakes are unconstitutional.

Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation Chief Allan Adam is telling the Alberta Energy Regulator to “prepare for court” after a third-party report commissioned by the regulator found it responded responsibly to oilsands tailings pond spill and seepage incidents at Imperial Oil’s Kearl site. He told the regulator on Sept. 26 that he does not accept the report.

Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault made the remarks Wednesday during a keynote address to the Canadian Club of Ottawa.

Eby's statement came on the same day that gurdwara councils in B.C. and Ontario called for the immediate suspension of all security and intelligence agreements with India and repeated their calls for a public inquiry into the death of Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Surrey, B.C.

Trans Mountain Corp. insists it is committed to "meaningful engagement" with Indigenous communities after it was given the green light to move its pipeline route despite the objection of a First Nation.

Alberta's New Democrat Opposition is asking the provincial government to step in and quash applications for coal mining exploration in the Rocky Mountains.

Yukon First Nation elder Sandra Johnson says the discovery of 15 potential graves near the site of a former residential school has “uncovered long-buried wounds.”

The resignation of House of Commons Speaker Anthony Rota is set to take effect this evening.

The Black Sea is almost devoid of oxygen. That could make it a great place to stash carbon.

A dozen experts are calling on Ottawa to launch a formal risk assessment of emerging nuclear technologies, saying there is a risk they could be used for weapons. The CEO behind one front-running nuclear company is fighting back.

Shortly after a new EU law was introduced to crack down on the import of unsustainable forest products that result in “forest degradation,” Canada went to work defining the term.

Leaders representing several First Nations from the Ring of Fire region in northern Ontario gave Premier Doug Ford notice that they will not allow any mining activity on their land. During a press conference at Queen's Park in Toronto, the leaders conveyed their frustration at Ford’s failure to meet directly with them to discuss mining claims in their territories.

Canada's industry minister called out Pepsi and Coca-Cola for not sending representatives to a meeting he convened on Monday, September 25, 2023, with manufacturing companies to discuss stabilizing grocery prices.

Sofia Oliveira was 12 years old when catastrophic wildfires in central Portugal killed more than 100 people in 2017. She “felt it was now or never to raise our voices” as her country appeared to be in the grip of deadly human-caused climate change.