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Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos and his provincial counterparts agree privately on what needs to be done to improve health care, the federal minister said on Wednesday, December 14, 2022, but he argues "the ball is in the premiers' court" to accept a deal for more funding from Ottawa.

Canada has revoked an exemption to sanctions that had allowed a Montreal company to repair turbines for the Nord Stream pipeline operated by Russian state-owned energy giant Gazprom.

The House of Commons passed a Liberal bill on Wednesday, December 14, 2022, designed to require web giants to compensate journalism outfits for reposting their content, and Meta is once again threatening to remove news content from Facebook in Canada.

Premier Danielle Smith says she is sorry if anyone misinterpreted earlier remarks to conclude she was equating Ottawa’s treatment of Alberta to the systemic and horrific abuse of First Nations people in Canada.

A study from the C.D. Howe Institute estimates Canada would have lost $156 billion in economic activity in 2021 had COVID-19 vaccines been rolled out six months later than they were. 

Representatives from developing countries have walked out of a global conference on conserving the world's biodiversity over concerns that talks about how those efforts should be funded are lagging behind those on how much land and water should be set aside. 

Environment ministers from around the world are gathering in Montreal for the last few days of a conference aimed at preserving what's left of the planet's biodiversity.

Efforts by Canada's financial intelligence agency over the last three years uncovered activity related to homegrown terrorism, the bankrolling of international terrorist groups and attempts by Canadians to take part in extremism abroad.

The privately owned Link Island, a biodiversity jewel in the Salish Sea, has been gifted to protect and shelter some of B.C.'s rarest species and ecosystems.

Indigenous Peoples in the Global South are calling out Canada for letting mining companies devastate their ancestral territories in the Amazon.

Researchers think the sound of vehicles can interfere with birds’ normal song when trying to scare off nearby rivals.

Fish harvesters are "deeply disappointed" after DFO released the details of its commercial licence buyback plan to protect plummeting Pacific salmon stocks Wednesday.

A complex but solvable crisis at a recently merged Toronto high school requires co-ordinated effort and time to fix, the executive director of a nearby youth outreach organization says.

International NGOs gathered at COP15 in Montreal to talk about the risk offshore oil presents for marine ecosystems.

The international gas lobby playbook hinges on rebranding planet-warming natural gas as green and key to energy security, new documents reveal.