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Progressive senators tried to pass an amendment to Bill C-5 that would have given judges the ability to pass conditional sentences for all offences, under exceptional circumstances. Without it, advocates worry the bill won't ease Canada's mass incarceration crisis.

A major climate meeting was held in Egypt, and the richest countries in the world were called on to show how they will help poorer nations that contribute little to the climate crisis. They didn't get a passing grade.

Canadian Security Intelligence Service director David Vigneault's testimony Monday is key to the Public Order Emergency Commission, which is scrutinizing the government's use of the Emergencies Act to disperse the protests.

In Episode 1, canadaLANDBACK hears from three generations of Stoney Pointers about how every system failed them. They explain their longing to rebuild their community and what led them to take over a military base in 1993.

After a disappointing federal election result, internal conflicts spilling into the open and a downward trend in fundraising, the federal Green Party named a familiar face as its leader Saturday night, although she will not be doing it alone.

Petro-states fought hard to ensure the COP27 implementation plan does not address fossil fuels directly

Construction on the Woodfibre LNG project in Squamish, B.C., is set to take off in 2023 but the “curious and gregarious” nature of sea lions could make the construction “neither technically nor economically feasible.”

Residents of mobile homes are six to eight times more likely to die from indoor heat exposure compared with residents of other types of housing.

If "confidentiality" stays in the final version of Article 6, regulators will have a severely limited scope when investigating a country's created carbon credits. The move could leave a backdoor for double-counting and fake emission cuts.

This month, the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board announced the results of this year’s call for bids — a process in which companies are invited to offer money for areas in the Atlantic Ocean they want to explore for oil and gas deposits.

The Opposition NDP’s Kristyn Wong-Tam sought the unanimous consent of Ontario's legislature earlier this week to create a committee to improve access to trans health care. The government House leader rejected it.

As many as 250 businesses are backing a resolution urging B.C.’s new Premier David Eby to stave off the extinction and climate crisis by backing the federal government’s 30x30 promise — to protect 30 per cent of the country’s land and waters by 2030.  

The clock is ticking to land an agreement for COP27, and Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault says Canada will support a proposal to launch a loss and damage fund –– with a few conditions.

The world’s wealthiest polluting countries spend at least 15 times more on military and arms than climate finance for the world’s most vulnerable countries, a new report revealed in the final week of COP27 negotiations.

In this part of northeastern Czech Republic, huge piles of coal are stacked up ready to sell to eager buyers and smoke belches from coal-fired plants that are ramping up instead of winding down.