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Days after signing a landmark $2.5-billion deal with the provinces and territories to subsidize Canada's farmers, the federal agriculture minister says she was betrayed by a cadre of conservative premiers.

The research adds utility companies and their affiliated groups to the growing list of actors that spent years misleading the public about the threat of climate change.

The world’s leading health organizations are endorsing the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty in an effort to protect public health.

The muddy damage in Oak Glen and Forest Falls served as a powerful warning to areas burning or facing high fire danger of the damage wildfires can cause months or years after flames are doused.

The city came "perilously close" to running out of clean drinking water during last November's floods, and it wasn't the first time the problem has arisen.

A top European Union official unveiled on Wednesday, September 14, 2022, a plan to cap the revenues of electricity producing companies that are making extraordinary profits due to the war in Ukraine and climate change, saying the proposal could raise $140 billion to help people hit by spiraling energy prices.

The federal government’s newly announced inflation relief for lower-income Canadians through the GST rebate stacks up as a better policy than some of the cash payments issued by provinces, economists say.

Some Indigenous leaders and community members say they're concerned about making progress on reconciliation with King Charles III.

Kenya’s newly elected president William Ruto said that climate change will be key to the government's agenda and made an ambitious pledge to ramp up clean energy and phase out fossil fuels for electricity by 2030.

The federal minister of Indigenous Services is speaking out after visiting the site of a mass killing in Saskatchewan.

A study co-authored by British Columbia's top doctor says at least 70 to 80 per cent of children and youth in Greater Vancouver and the Fraser Valley have been infected with COVID-19.

Pierre Poilievre's crushing win to become leader of the Conservative Party of Canada raises questions about the status and power of the party's social conservatives.

Gilles Bélanger, a candidate for the Coalition Avenir Québec, recently moved his children and partner out of his house, and he makes sure the doors are always locked.

As affordability woes dominate the national political conversation, the Liberal environment minister says climate change is linked to cost-of-living concerns and will remain high on the federal government’s agenda.

It’s rare for rodents to achieve any kind of all-star status; critters like mice, rats, gophers, squirrels, and porcupines have yet to secure their spot as environmental heroes.