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Sabotage. Property destruction. For Léna Lazare and her cohort, radicalized by years of inaction on the environmental crisis, these aren’t dirty words. They’re acts of joy.

One of 39 nations that pledged to end non-domestic support for fossil fuels at the COP26 climate change conference in 2021, Canada spent $6.75-billion less last year backing new sector projects, according to International Institute of Sustainable Development

Falcon says nominations of BC United candidates will be withdrawn to allow the Conservatives to draw from them for its election slate, less than two months before the provincial election on Oct. 19.

Energy Minister Stephen Lecce says energy companies must get municipal support in order to proceed and banned solar installations on prime agricultural land.

A judge convicted Jeremy Skibicki last month of first-degree murder in the 2022 slayings, which put another spotlight on the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Canada.

Cellphone use will be restricted in all British Columbia school districts when pupils return next week, as the province becomes the latest to curtail the use of the devices by students.

The Insurance Bureau of Canada says the wildfire that tore through Jasper is the second-most expensive one in Alberta's history for insured losses.

When UBC food safety researcher Tianxi Yang became a mother, she wondered how much microplastic her son would ingest when drinking milk out of widely available plastic containers.

Groups say the B.C. Coastal Marine Strategy should be the first step toward a law to protect coastal habitats from shoreline development, but similar attempts out east have not gone to plan.

Van Bergeijk joined a crowd of more than 300 protesters outside the Township of Wilmot council meeting on Monday, demanding an immediate halt to the expropriation of 311 hectares of farmland. They argue that this “forced acquisition” by the Region of Waterloo would have a devastating impact on Ontario's food security, farmers' livelihoods and the environmental health of the community.

Renewable energy is already well on the way. Now, researchers on the East Coast are turning their attention to increasingly complex energy storage solutions to empower wind, solar and geothermal to help it truly supplant fossil fuels.

Across the world, farmers are turning waste biomass into biochar, which can be used to improve their soils, boost the yields of their crops and create a new source of income — all while sequestering carbon.

A union representing McGill University law professors said its members walked off the job on Monday, the first week of classes for the fall semester, over what it described as the school's anti-union tactics and refusal to negotiate in good faith.

At least 91 candidates will be on the ballot for the Sept. 16 byelection in LaSalle—Émard—Verdun, according to Elections Canada. Seventy-nine of them are linked to the Longest Ballot Committee, a group protesting Canada’s first-past-the-post voting system.

Canada-U.S. relations will take centre stage today as the federal cabinet wraps up the third and final day of its annual summer retreat.