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Canada's Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister says some of the residential school records it's been criticized for withholding will be released to a national archives centre.

Canada’s National Observer sat down with Amita Kuttner, interim leader of the Green Party, to talk about the party’s future and why they took on the challenge. With the Nov. 24 appointment, Kuttner, 30, is the youngest person, the first trans person and the first person of east Asian descent to lead a national political party in Canada.

A contingent of 30 "elders for old-growth" travelled down pitch black logging roads Thursday to stall road-building and the clear-cutting of forest giants near the Fairy Creek blockades.

As a senior field technician at Coastal Action, the 29-year-old sees coastal conservation as important climate mitigation and adaptation.

A First Nation near Lytton, B.C., is conserving its food supply after historic flooding washed out roads in the surrounding area, severing access to basic necessities.

A team of volunteers is airlifting food, water and basic necessities to B.C. communities cut off by last month's historic flooding.

An Ontario infectious disease specialist says there is evidence testing all travellers before and after they arrive in Canada will identify most cases of COVID-19 coming into the country.

British Columbia's public safety minister got a first-hand look on Friday, December 3, 2021, of the destruction caused by torrential rainstorms that forced rivers over their banks and ripped away roads and bridges.

The November jobs report for Canada boosted the national workforce well past February 2020 levels when the economy was still untouched by COVID-19. But young women are working more part-time jobs, Statistics Canada said, and a crunch looms in hospitality.

The successive storms that brutalized southern British Columbia with floods and slides caused by record amounts of rainfall were declared over on Thursday, December 2, 2021, but now the cleanup and costly rebuild lie ahead, says the public safety minister.

In a notice posted on its website, Transport Canada said the popular car ceased to be eligible for the federal $5,000 electric car rebate program for both its 2021 and 2022 models.

Confusion has been growing at some Canadian airports that say they want more direction from the federal government since it changed COVID-19 testing rules for travellers.

Canadians will soon get an update on the health of federal finances and the government's outlook for an economy facing high inflation rates, flooding in British Columbia and the emergence of a new variant of COVID-19.

The environment minister says the delay is necessary to allow Indigenous Peoples, provinces and other interested parties to weigh in on what the plan should contain.

The National Advisory Committee on Immunization is set to release new guidance this morning on the use of COVID-19 vaccine boosters as public health faces down the threat of the Omicron variant.