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A broad rebound in the job market scooped up young workers across Canada in February as provinces lifting COVID-19 restrictions meant more employment in reopened bars, restaurants, gyms and other indoor places.

If the Coastal GasLink pipeline is completed, 16 First Nations in B.C. will have a combined 10 per cent ownership stake in the project.

The Toronto District School Board, Canada’s largest, will go along with the Ford government’s plan to make wearing a mask a personal choice in Ontario schools, but asked to delay dropping the COVID-19 classroom safety measure on return from March break.

The U.N. Security Council scheduled a meeting on Friday, March 11, 2022, at Russia’s request to discuss what Moscow claims are “the military biological activities of the U.S. on the territory of Ukraine,” allegations vehemently denied by Ukraine's leader and the Biden administration.

Recent graduates in microbiology and other disciplines are helping Toronto keep track of trends in COVID-19 infections by running daily lab tests on sewage samples from across the city.

Journalist-playwright Alanna Mitchell says the time is now to focus on ways to save the Earth’s oceans.

Ontario plans to build four new highways, expand five existing ones and put in more than 40 kilometres of new subway, according to an expansive 30-year transportation plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe area announced Thursday.

Two days before Canadians across the country will come together in a show of widespread support for just transition legislation, the federal government announced a long-awaited next step to ensure “a just transition through the creation of sustainable jobs.”

Canada’s biggest banks are responding to climate-related resolutions, offering a peek into how seriously they take the crisis as the annual shareholder meeting season approaches.

Satellites spot troubling signals that may portend a transformation from rainforest to savanna, with profound implications for the planet.

“The solution is to move away from fossil fuels,” Steven Guilbeault told Canada’s National Observer. “That’s how we ultimately reduce our dependency.”

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced new sanctions on Friday, March 11, 2022, against Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, a major shareholder in Evraz, a British multinational manufacturing company that operates a steel mill in Regina.

The news conference at the beginning of 2020 wasn’t all that different from the many Dr. Howard Njoo had held in the past.

Belarus's exiled opposition leader says ordinary Belarusians are actively resisting the invasion of Ukraine, disrupting railway supplies to Russian forces and warning Ukrainians about movements of Russian aircraft.

An annual rattlesnake roundup in south Georgia recently changed the format of this month’s event to celebrate living snakes without skinning and butchering them, earning plaudits from animal rights activists.