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More than 100 local residents packed the Old Town Hall in Newmarket, Ont., Thursday night to rally against the Ontario government’s plan to build houses on a nearby part of the protected Greenbelt. 

Comments from New Brunswick’s premier indicating he’s prepared to steamroll over Indigenous objections to fracking caused ripples in the Legislative Assembly on Friday, prompting the province’s Minister of Aboriginal Affairs to make opposing promises on consultation.

At a press conference on Friday afternoon, the Nova Scotia Department of Labour said its investigation will wrap up next week and more information about the cause will be released at a later date.

An Ontario Provincial Police officer who died early on Thursday, May 11, 2023, was "ambushed and shot" along with two others when they arrived at a home east of Ottawa, the force said, as local residents expressed shock at the violence in their typically quiet community.

The New Democrat government in British Columbia started the spring legislative session promising more affordable homes for vulnerable people, but ended the sitting on Thursday, May 11, 2023, amid turmoil over its public housing agency.

The Alberta Energy Regulator has warned Imperial Oil about more wastewater problems at its Kearl oilsands mine in northern Alberta.

A British Columbia Supreme Court judge ruling on a First Nations land title lawsuit says it did not prove it had rights to its entire claim area, although he suggested it may be time for the provincial government to rethink its current test for such titles.

A search for the remains of two First Nations women at a Winnipeg-area landfill could take up to three years and cost $184 million, says a study examining whether a successful search is possible.

Premier Blaine Higgs told business publication allNewBrunswick: “There comes a time when you just gotta find a way to move on" if First Nations won't buy into his plans to frack shale gas.

The bureau is officially investigating an ad campaign that Greenpeace Canada argues is “false and misleading” because it suggests Canada's six biggest oilsands companies are reducing greenhouse gas emissions and helping Canada achieve its climate targets.

If you’ve eaten a burger and fries recently, there’s a chance that the potatoes were picked by middle schoolers, working through the school day in a field in Idaho.

The war in Ukraine helped push the global total of people left internally displaced by conflict or natural disasters to a record high of 71.1 million last year, according to a report released on Thursday by the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre.

The House of Commons has unanimously asked a parliamentary committee to look into allegations that the Chinese government waged an intimidation campaign against Conservative member of Parliament Michael Chong.

People's Party of Canada Leader Maxime Bernier appears set to announce his candidacy in a coming byelection for a federal seat in Manitoba.

Indigenous Services Canada says wildfires are threatening nine First Nations in Alberta, including the Little Red River Cree Nation, where more than 100 structures have been lost in the community of Fox Creek.