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Canada's National Observer has been nominated for two Canadian Association of Journalists awards in the human rights reporting and online media categories.

Governments should consider extreme heat a natural disaster as climate change raises the risk of soaring summer temperatures in much of Canada, a new report says.

One of the companies that had planned to build an open-pit coal mine in the Rocky Mountains has signed an agreement with an Alberta government agency to work toward converting the project to renewable energy.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau revealed plans on Tuesday, April 19, 2022, to send heavy artillery to embattled Ukraine as Canada levied new sanctions against more than a dozen close associates of Russian President Vladimir Putin, including his two daughters.

Ottawa convoy protest organizer Pat King is now facing perjury and obstruction of justice charges related to testimony he gave at his bail review hearing last week.

At least eight candidates have crossed the first threshold to having their names appear on the final ballot of the Conservative Party of Canada leadership race.

Tim Kulchyski says salmon used to be so plentiful off Vancouver Island that they would shake his Cowichan ancestors’ dugout canoes as they collided in the waters of the Salish Sea.

A Saskatchewan First Nation says it plans to release details today about "possible burials found" at the site of a former residential school.

Labour Minister Seamus O'Regan says the Liberal government is planning legislation to make Canadian companies ensure that they are not using slave labour or exploiting child workers overseas.

Heavy winds kicked up a towering wall of flames outside a northern Arizona tourist town on Tuesday, April 19, 2022, ripping through two-dozen structures and sending residents of more than 700 homes scrambling to flee.

Spending money now to avoid the worst effects of climate change later will literally pay for itself, according to a new analysis.

Newfoundland and Labrador residents say they’re frustrated by the lack of free COVID-19 rapid tests when other provinces make them widely available at no cost.

Devastating floods in South Africa this week, as well as other extreme weather events across the continent linked to human−caused climate change, are putting marine and terrestrial wildlife species at risk, according to biodiversity experts.

Humans are polluting the seas with sound, while warming waters change how noise propagates. What does that mean for whales and other animals?

Canada cut its greenhouse gas emissions by nine per cent in 2020, but whether that is indicative of a long-term trend or merely a product of the COVID-19 pandemic remains to be seen.