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The Liberal government announced on Thursday, December 15, 2022, it will seek to delay the expansion of Canada's assisted-dying regime to include people whose sole underlying conditions are mental disorders.

Alberta's justice minister says provincial prosecutors are to take over the handling of charges under the federal Firearms Act starting in the new year.

After announcing its purchase of 56 gas stations from the parent company of Sobeys on Thursday, December 15, 2022, Shell Canada is on the lookout for other potential acquisitions as it seeks to grow its retail fuel footprint across the country.

In 2002, investigators started a massive search of Robert Pickton's pig farm in British Columbia and eventually found the remains of several women. 

Parts of Central and Eastern Canada could see as much as 20 centimetres of snow by the end of the weekend, as a winter storm continues its path eastward.

The Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations says the ongoing tension around public financing to save nature stem from a "trust deficit" because wealthier countries have failed to fulfil their financing promises to developing nations in the past.

At first, Cory Holland thought government anti-smoking measures were working when he noticed tobacco sales at his British Columbia convenience store started to drop. 

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau may not have started the day thinking about whether mermaids reproduce like fish or like humans, but that's what one person is asking him to consider.

The Paris 2024 Olympics will be “climate positive,” organizers claim. The men’s World Cup in 2026 — to be held in Mexico, the U.S. and Canada — will be the “lowest-carbon FIFA World Cup of the modern era,” if promises pan out.

China is tapping Canada to help overcome the toughest negotiation hurdles at the United Nations’ COP15 biodiversity conference in Montreal in a diplomatic move that signals growing trust between the two countries.

Researchers from the Zoological Society of London and the University of Cambridge have put together a guide on how the birds can be protected from worsening conditions, using the expertise of 80 conservationists and policymakers across 15 European countries.

Virginijus Sinkevičius, EU environment commissioner and Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault remain optimistic the United Nations biodiversity conference in Montreal will result in an ambitious plan to protect nature, but developing countries appear unwilling to move forward without financing commitments from wealthy countries.

Decarbonizing Ontario’s electricity system is going to cost about $400 billion over the next two and a half decades and require a “no regrets” kind of attitude to get there, according to the province’s grid operator.

The most recent shutdown follows a week-long stoppage in August due to equipment issues and planned summer maintenance that went a month longer than expected.

The Canadian Climate Institute put out the report that makes 11 recommendations for improvements to the federal government's draft $1.6-billion strategy that was released in November.