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After last week’s severe storm and flooding, Toronto’s controversial stormwater charge, dubbed “the rain tax” by critics, has resurfaced at city council with a motion by Mayor Olivia Chow. 

Nearly half a million people a year die worldwide from heat related deaths, far more than other weather extremes such as hurricanes, and this is likely an underestimate, a new report by 10 U.N. agencies said.

Specifics on what has been destroyed in the Rocky Mountain resort town of 5,000 remained sketchy.

As Canada’s premiers reckoned with housing, health care and their contentious relationship with Ottawa during meetings last week in Halifax, many of them remained consumed by climate change-related natural disasters that have only escalated since they returned home.

The southern resident killer whale known as Tahlequah captured global sympathy in 2018 when she pushed the body of her dead calf for more than two weeks in waters off British Columbia's south coast.

The European climate service Copernicus calculated that Tuesday’s global average temperature was 0.01 Celsius (0.01 Fahrenheit) lower than Monday's all-time high of 17.16 degrees Celsius (62.8 degrees Fahrenheit), which was .06 degrees Celsius hotter (0.1 degrees Fahrenheit) than Sunday.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on social media that Ottawa has approved Alberta’s request for federal assistance after a fast-moving wildfire hit Jasper National Park and its townsite late on Wednesday.

In a dramatic Tuesday council meeting, four ABC party councillors voted to approve an amendment that reverses city rules from 2020 prohibiting new buildings from using natural gas for heating and hot water.

Just days before the Paris Olympics open, Lululemon Athletica Inc., is facing a first-of-its-kind formal complaint in France filed by a grassroots environmental organization in Canada and the United States.

All first responders were ordered out of Jasper National Park Wednesday evening as the fire burned into the town.

Energy giant promised to turn 1m tonnes of plastic waste into oil each year, but now says goal is unfeasible

Monday was recorded as the hottest day ever globally, beating a record set the day before, as countries around the world from Japan to Bolivia to the United States continue to feel the heat, according to the European climate change service.

Climate activists glued themselves to the ground at Cologne-Bonn Airport in western Germany on Wednesday, forcing officials to suspend flights for a few hours, authorities said.

A federal Crown corporation is extending a $200 to $300-million loan to Enbridge Inc. to support the company’s oil and gas expansion plans.

The Rental Protection Fund is providing grants to two non-profits to purchase affordable rental housing in Port Hardy, Campbell River, Duncan and Parksville.