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Federal ministers defended the government's use of the Emergencies Act on Monday, April 25, 2022, as they announced an independent public inquiry to investigate the use of the act to end blockades at Canadian border crossings and in Ottawa earlier this year.

A Brazilian federal court on Monday upheld the suspension of an environmental license for what would be the largest open−pit gold mine in the nation’s Amazon rainforest, dealing a blow to the Canada−based company behind the project.

A disaster−weary globe will be hit harder in the coming years by even more catastrophes colliding in an interconnected world, a United Nations report issued on Monday, April 25, 2022 says.

Conservative leadership candidate Jean Charest is promising to repeal the Liberal government's consumer carbon price and eliminate the federal portion of the HST on low-carbon purchases.

British Columbia Premier John Horgan says he apologizes for "intemperate comments" he made during a heated question period in the legislature.

York University is teaming up with IBM’s Good Tech Scholars program for the summer edition of its C4 (Cross-Campus Capstone Classroom) program to discover if smart city development can help lessen poverty.

Sales of children’s books related to the environment rose 69 per cent between 2019 and 2021 — and they are loaded with calls to action.

The most recent commander of Canada's military training mission in Ukraine says the fact Russia has sanctioned him and several of his predecessors is proof of the mission's impact.

Three critically endangered Sumatran tigers were found dead after being caught in traps on Indonesia’s Sumatra island in the latest setback for a species whose numbers are estimated to have dwindled to about 400, authorities said on Monday, April 25, 2022.

Official plans call for boosting coal production capacity by 300 million tons this year, according to news reports. That is equal to 7% of last year’s output of 4.1 billion tons, which was an increase of 5.7% over 2020.

Defence Minister Anita Anand will release a highly anticipated report this morning that is expected to take the military to task for not doing enough to address racism in the ranks over the past two decades.

While remaining unvaccinated against COVID-19 is often framed as a personal choice, those who spurn the vaccines raise the risk of infection for those around them, a new study suggests.

A British Columbia man says he was briefly hospitalized on the 24th day of a hunger strike to protest old-growth logging but plans to go without food until the end of the month before joining others in escalating action against the government.

Lloyd’s of London syndicate Aspen Insurance announced April 21 it will cut ties with Trans Mountain when its insurance policy expires this summer, making it the 17th company to do so.

The climate ministers of Canada and Ontario joined a fundraising call for the country’s biggest-ever private conservation purchase on Friday, as one heads into an election devoid of climate policy and the other has just approved a massive offshore oil and gas project.