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This week, average global temperatures are smashing records left and right, which “should fill everyone with anxiety,” says Green Party deputy leader Jonathan Pedneault. 

The decision of the three governments came after Meta promised to block Canadian news content on its Facebook and Instagram platforms in response to Canada's recently passed Online News Act.

The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security — which leads Canada's federal response to cybersecurity incidents — said Wednesday it can't disclose details of the cybersecurity incident that caused payment systems at many of Suncor's Petro-Canada locations across the country to go down last week. 

Pierre Grenier says that ever since the 2013 train derailment in Lac-Megantic, Que., spilled 100,000 litres of crude oil into the Chaudière River, the fishing hasn't been the same.

A United Nations body has affirmed earlier findings that Canada's largest national park remains under environmental threats from dams, oilsands development and climate change.

The Alberta government has approved a $175-million recovery program for municipalities and Metis settlements affected by wildfires.

Canadians eligible for the GST credit are expected to receive a special payment today to help with the rising cost of groceries.

Canadian homeowners facing wildfires, floods and other extreme weather events don't have to worry about companies pulling out of the country's home insurance market, experts say — at least not yet.

Newfoundland and Labrador is hinging its financial future on the offshore oil and gas industry, but experts say that future looks murkier after recent news coming from the industry. Here's the breakdown.

Around the world, communities are bracing for sea level rise: the Netherlands is stabilizing its dikes, Senegal is relocating neighbourhoods, Indonesia is moving its entire capital city. These projects are hefty, expensive and slow. But they may need to pick up the pace.

There is only one bridge in Takla Landing and on this June day, about three dozen people are gathered there around a blue plastic tub swimming with hundreds of baby salmon. They are preparing to transfer the fish into a nearby creek, hoping against all odds the fry will thrive and reboot the millennia-old migration of Early Stuart sockeye along the Fraser River, once millions of fish strong.

Two years ago, Toronto city council banned e-scooters due to safety concerns and objections raised by the disability community.

Documents filed by Nova Scotia Power show three of four coal-fired units at the Lingan Generating Station will be converted to heavy fuel oil in 2030 and are scheduled to operate until 2050.

Years long negotiations are reaching a critical point where the authority will soon need to begin accepting mining permit applications, adding to worries over the potential impacts on sparsely researched marine ecosystems and habitats of the deep sea.