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The strategic mistake made in allowing Russia to have global dominance in oil and gas cannot be repeated as the world looks to massively ramp up production of critical minerals, Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson asserted this week.

Money laundering in British Columbia reached "staggering" levels due to inadequate efforts by police, politicians and regulators to curtail the crime, but there was no evidence it involved official corruption, a long-awaited public inquiry report has concluded.

The federal Liberals plan to introduce privacy legislation today, June 16, 2022, to give Canadians more control over their personal data and introduce new rules for the use of artificial intelligence.

Prisons are badly failing to comply with solitary confinement laws and regularly violating inmate' rights, a new report by a group of Canadian senators says.

The California Supreme Court on Wednesday, June 15, 2022, left intact a ruling that allows customers to sue Amazon.com for failing to warn buyers that some products it sells may contain hazardous substances such as mercury.

Extracting the chemical used in fertilizers from waste rather than mining it could also help reduce pollution, according to a new report.

After years of fighting for its protection, environmentalists in Atlantic Canada got good news this week: Owls Head is now a designated provincial park.

Collision, a major global tech event that migrated to Toronto one year before COVID-19 hit, is opening its doors again next week, welcoming hundreds of speakers and tens of thousands of participants to a four-day confab.

Tim Takaro, a retired doctor, reflected on events that led him to spend 16 months in a treehouse protesting the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.

Harjit Sajjan toured the ruins of Lytton, B.C., on Tuesday, June 14, 2022, witnessing the full impact of what a wildfire did to the community when it raced through the village in June last year.

Oregon health officials say the impacts of climate change, including more devastating wildfires, heat waves, drought and poor air quality, are fueling “climate anxiety” among young people.

Calling Montreal the epicentre of the North American monkeypox outbreak, health officials in the city said on Tuesday, June 14, 2022, they were expanding vaccination against the disease to all men who have sex with men.

Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland say they didn't hear recommendations from police to enact the Emergencies Act.

The company overseeing the federal government's $900-million settlement deal with military members who experienced sexual misconduct in uniform is admitting to more privacy breaches, despite repeated promises to have fixed the problem.

The United States government, including President Joe Biden's White House, has joined calls for Canada to participate in a probe of cross-border pollution coming from coal mines in southern British Columbia.