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Three of Quebec's main political parties took aim on Wednesday, September 7, 2022, at a proposal by Québec solidaire to introduce wealth and inheritance taxes on people with assets worth $1 million or more.

Winnie Keben had felt blessed to be raising her children in her husband's childhood home in the community of Kampi ya Samaki, just over a quarter mile from the shoreline of Lake Baringo.

A suspect in a deadly series of stabbings in Saskatchewan was chased down by police on a rural highway, but he went into medical distress soon after his arrest and died, RCMP said on Wednesday, September 7, 2022.

Australia’s Parliament enshrined in law the government’s elevated target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 43% below 2005 levels by the end of the decade.

The federal government intends to temporarily hike GST rebate cheques in a bid to ease some of the hurt of inflation for lower income Canadians.

Five policy questions Tory leadership front-runner Pierre Poilievre hasn't answered

New Air Passenger Protection Regulations go into effect today, September 8, 2022.

Clean energy now provides more employment than the fossil fuel industry, reflecting the shift that efforts to tackle climate change are having on the global jobs market, according to a new report.

A research project aims to discover how the age, size and shape of woodlands affect people’s happiness and well-being.

The pandemic brought an influx of funding to charities, giving a boost to programs that cut food waste. But with that money now gone, researchers and food redistribution organizations are looking for alternative ways to prevent the problem.

The Hamilton chapter of ACORN Canada, a group representing low- and moderate-income people, held a rally Wednesday to draw attention to people living in sweltering rental housing.

Students converged on the downtown campus of the University of Toronto this week for orientation activities that were missing from the last two years of pandemic-affected academic life.

Relying on the Quadra Island volunteer fire department to maintain ambulance service in the community threatens patient safety, risks burning out firefighters and limits the response to blazes during the height of wildfire season, the fire chief says.

The RCMP could get more federal funds to combat the increasing harassment and threats directed at Canadian journalists, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in response to a recent call for action. But more dollars for policing won’t address the problem, journalists and targeted individuals say.

Coalition Avenir Québec Leader François Legault is promising to ask the province's hydro utility to consider building new hydroelectric dams, but he is not saying where or how he would realize the complicated, expensive megaprojects.