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President Joe Biden's controversial plan to use protectionist tax incentives to promote U.S.-made electric vehicles, which threatens misery for the Canadian auto sector, is making for all kinds of strange bedfellows. 

Alberta doesn't have a good grasp of the overall environmental impacts of the oilsands a decade after implementing monitoring that was supposed to provide it, internal government documents suggest.

Hospitals in several parts of Canada are straining under the weight of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, with Quebec hospitalizations reaching an all-time high on Sunday, January 9, 2022, and Ontario's admissions to intensive care units surging past the 400 mark.

The agency that monitors British Columbia's waterways is warning of "minor to significant flooding" on B.C.'s Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island as warming temperatures and persistent rain melt heavy snow.

Most people in a new Canada-wide survey say equal representation in government is important, but they don't support employers taking demographic characteristics into account in hiring and promotion decisions.

Meet Lisa Chen, who wanted to use her biology degree to fight climate change but had trouble finding a relevant job.

Researchers are using satellite technology to monitor the health of these vital carbon sinks and help restore them.

The Solid Carbon initiative aims to scrub vast amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air before pumping it into basalt reservoirs below the ocean floor, where it will transform into rock. 

Videos shared online of the raucous party on a Dec. 30 Montreal-Cancun charter flight sparked anger from politicians and an investigation by Transport Canada in conjunction with the federal health and public safety departments.

A journalist working for a Montreal-based online radio station was killed on Thursday, January 7, 2022, near the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, as he prepared to interview a member of an armed group about the murder of a police inspector.

Alberta's oilsands are maintaining production levels with critical staff only as operators try to minimize the workforce impact of the highly contagious Omicron variant.

The program offers loans of up to $50 million to help oil and gas producers meet or exceed regulations enforcing cuts to their methane emissions.  

Canada's largest private-sector union is calling on the federal government to push back a port plan that would impose tighter environmental restrictions on container trucks.

RCMP anti-corruption investigators say they are probing possible shady practices by several Canadian companies operating in parts of Africa, Eastern Europe and South America.