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A 26-year-old man suspected of shooting dead three people in the Montreal area earlier this week had mental health issues and likely chose his victims at random, Quebec provincial police said on Thursday, August 5, 2022.

Canada is sending military trainers to the United Kingdom to help teach Ukrainians how to fight invading Russian forces.

These pollinators are critical for growing food, but little is known about the native bee species supporting the island’s farmers.

In her new book, Water Always Wins, author Erica Gies says stop resisting, just go with the flow. 

The problem of staffing shortages in ERs is playing out not only in Alert Bay but at hospitals across the North Island region and the province.

Health care is responsible for about 4.6 per cent of Canada's greenhouse gas emissions, and many of these emissions can be traced back to waste from food and a reliance on single-use plastic items, according to the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

The realization that turbulence created by deepwater wind turbines could upset the spring phytoplankton bloom has researchers warning the rapidly emerging industry to proceed with caution.

Coming Tuesday, Aug. 9 on iTunes: The Salmon People builds on the success of CNO’s 2021 debut podcast series, Race Against Climate Change, which earned a nomination for Best Climate Solutions Reporting from the Canadian Journalism Foundation. This new collaborative podcast cements CNO’s commitment to telling impactful and creative stories about the climate.

Environmentalists are expressing dismay over a pending provincial government decision that could allow a Nova Scotia gold mine to raise the height of the wall of its existing tailings waste pond.

More than six in 10 Canadian teenagers and more than a quarter of young adults have never touched a cigarette, Statistics Canada says, but vaping is growing in popularity among the younger demographic.

Australia’s new government announced on Thursday, August 4, 2022, it plans to prevent development of a coal mine due to the potential impact on the nearby Great Barrier Reef.

The United Nations chief sharply criticized the “grotesque greed” of oil and gas companies on Wednesday, August 3, 2022, for making record profits from the energy crisis on the back of the world’s poorest people, “while destroying our only home.”

A Saskatchewan First Nation bore witness on Wednesday, August 3, 2022, to words it wanted from the federal government since the early 1950s — an apology.

Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly called for calm in the face of escalating tensions between the United States, Taiwan and China on Wednesday, August 3, 2022, even as she laid responsibility for the current standoff firmly at Beijing’s feet.

Jean Charest spent the last official debate of the federal Conservative leadership race on Wednesday, August 3, 2022, stressing that his experience as a political leader is what the party needs to unite.