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Premier Jason Kenney kicked off a campaign to lure skilled workers from Toronto and Vancouver as he doubled down on his criticism of a so-called Alberta sovereignty act pitched by one of the candidates running to replace him.

A copper smelter in northwest Quebec will be permitted to release 15 nanograms of arsenic per cubic metre of air — five times the provincial norm — Quebec's environment minister said on Monday, August 15, 2022.

One-quarter of front line employees surveyed at Canada's border agency said they had directly witnessed a colleague discriminate against a traveller in the previous two years.

Some energy experts warn a deal to sell Canadian hydrogen to Germany will serve as only a small, far-off and expensive part of the solution to Europe’s energy crisis.

The rolling prairie lands of northeastern Wyoming have been a paradise of lush, knee−deep grass for sheep, cattle and pronghorn antelope this summer.

Germany’s main industry lobby group warned on Tuesday, August 15, 2022, that factories may have to throttle production or halt it completely because plunging water levels on the Rhine River are making it harder to transport cargo.

A fishing boat that sank with nearly 10,000 litres of fuel on board near the Canada−U.S. marine border went down in one of the worst possible places for endangered orcas, an ocean pollutants expert says.

Even record-setting temperatures can’t melt the continent’s reluctance to install cooling technology.

Eight spirit horses live on Mādahòkì Farm, a tourism and events destination run by Indigenous Experiences, where they are a living representation of the farm’s larger work of reclamation, education and celebration of Indigenous cultures and traditions.

Pausing Trans Mountain pipeline construction at a Hope, B.C., river crossing would have only increased the risk to salmon later, as they arrive in greater numbers in late August and into September, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) told Canada’s National Observer.

Pride events are important to help rural queer and trans youth rural accept themselves and feel welcome in their home communities, say organizers with the Discovery Islands Pride Celebration.

Climate activist Anjali Appadurai on Monday formally announced her bid to run against David Eby, B.C.'s former attorney general and housing minister, in a race to become the province's next premier.

The Ford government’s proposal of annual pay raises up to two per cent for its public school system’s lowest-paid workers was “disheartening,” the union representing 55,000 education assistants, library workers, custodians and other school staff said.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford signalled his government will expand mayoral power provincewide after tabling legislation last week to grant the mayors of Toronto and Ottawa sweeping new authority.

Concerns include wildlife deaths along the rail line — particularly grizzly bears, which have been hit and killed on the existing track — and the fragmentation of wildlife habitat in Alberta's already busy Bow Valley.