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Ten thousand years ago, when the last ice age gave way to the Holocene, a great migration was triggered in North America: trees began travelling northward, colonizing newly thawed landscapes at a pace of up to 500 metres a year. In a geoclimatic blink of an eye, trees colonized 38 per cent of the landmass now known as Canada, ultimately giving us nearly a 10th of all the forest in the world.

On Feb. 15, the 21-year-old history student at Simon Fraser University is to be sentenced for his alleged obstruction of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project.

Elizabeth May is taking the fight to address environmental racism back to the House after a Liberal MP’s bill died on the order paper last fall.

The Queen has adapted to the expansion of liberal democracies while respecting ancient royal customs to create a magic dust that has left an enduring influence on Canada as she marks her Platinum Jubilee, experts say.

On a frosty Friday, February 4, 2022, morning, a few dozen masked people gathered on the corner of Bank and Somerset Street in downtown Ottawa.

Protesters opposed to vaccine mandates and other COVID-19 restrictions held rallies in cities across Canada on Saturday, February 5, 2022, in a show of solidarity with a week-long demonstration in the national capital, while the effort to end the newly re-energized protest in Ottawa shifted gears to the legal arena.

Two more land defenders who took part in a Toronto rail blockade in solidarity with Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs last November have been charged or ticketed.

Justice Marianne Rivoalen said a decision by Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency to dismiss food safety concerns was unreasonable because it doesn’t explain how the decision was made.

Retail and accommodation jobs were hit hard by job losses in January, especially in Ontario and Quebec, as renewed public health restrictions hurt young workers and women the most.

GoFundMe has been used to raise more than $10 million to support the anti-vaccine mandate protesters that have brought downtown Ottawa to a standstill for close to a week.

One must be "very, very cautious" about deploying troops on Canadian soil in such cases, Trudeau said at a news conference Thursday. "It is not something that anyone should enter in lightly." 

Bergen's Tory colleagues greeted her with a standing ovation in the House of Commons Thursday as she made her debut as interim leader during question period, where she took aim at the Trudeau government for refusing to extend an “olive branch” to the demonstrators.

Premier Jason Kenney says his government will announce next week a date to end Alberta's COVID-19 vaccine passport, as well as a phased approach to ending almost all COVID-19 health restrictions by the end of the month, provided the pressure on hospitals continues to decline.

Demonstrators began parking their trucks and other vehicles last Saturday near the crossing at Coutts, Alta., in solidarity with similar events in Ottawa and other locations to protest COVID-19 vaccine mandates and broader public health measures.