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The United States doubled down on Tuesday, January 31, 2023, in its ongoing dispute with Canada over dairy imports, accusing one of its closest trading partners of shirking its responsibilities under the terms of North America's three-year-old trade agreement.

Indigenous people, especially women, are dying from toxic drugs at disproportionately high rates in British Columbia as the overdose crisis continues "unabated," nearly seven years after the province first declared a public health emergency, said the top doctor for the First Nations Health Authority.

The Conservative party has set a fundraising record for a non-election year under the new leadership of Pierre Poilievre, and it is outpacing other federal parties.

The population of western monarch butterflies wintering along the California coast has rebounded for a second year in a row after a precipitous drop in 2020, but the population of orange-and-black insects is still well below what it used to be, researchers say.

A report from an investor-focused advocacy group raises questions about how well some of Canada's biggest investors are meeting their climate commitments.

For more than a decade, a proposal to build a cement plant has hung over one rural Ontario village like a black cloud.

After a death at a healing lodge managed by Correctional Service Canada, critics are calling for the return of the original vision of the lodges that are Indigenous-led and community-managed.

Scientists say the phenomenon, coupled with the growing climate crisis, is likely to push global temperatures off the charts.

Proposed new standards for long-term care issued by a panel of experts at the Health Standards Organization on Tuesday say residents should get at least four hours of direct care a day and workers must be paid more.

Canada's financial intelligence agency is stepping up the fight against the illicit wildlife trade by taking aim at the criminals who reap big profits from the global racket.

A charitable organization founded by the late Jean Vanier issued a report on Monday, January 30, 2023, saying the Canadian sexually abused at least 25 women during his decades with the group.

Decriminalization of people with small amounts of illegal drugs for their own use has become a reality in British Columbia, but substance users and researchers say the change is expected to make little immediate difference because of a toxic drug supply.

A property that includes fescue grasslands, forests and wetlands near Waterton Lakes National Park in southern Alberta has been purchased by the Nature Conservancy of Canada.

The Quebec government is calling for the resignation of the federal government's special representative to combat Islamophobia over a 2019 opinion piece in an Ottawa newspaper in which she suggested Quebecers are influenced by anti-Muslim attitudes.

Not every day do we have guests who go by Quick Dick McDick on our show, but when we do, we talk about farming, the federal costs associated with it, and finding local food.