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Conservative MP Marilyn Gladu says "This is not about Erin O'Toole's leadership. Has nothing to do with that."

With pledges for a United Nations climate conference, the world may be ever so slightly receding from gloomy scenarios of future global warming, according to two new preliminary scientific analyses on Thursday, November 4, 2021.

Tim McMillan was head of the organization for seven years. CAPP says it has launched an executive search to replace him.

Freshly appointed Women and Gender Equality Minister Marci Ien says as part of her effort to combat gender-based violence she intends to place a lens on men to understand why it happens in the first place.

A new project trumpeted by U.S. President Joe Biden in which companies underpin development of low-carbon technologies through their buying power amounts to a “big transformation,” U.S. climate envoy John Kerry said on Thursday, November 4, 2021.

British Columbia Premier John Horgan says a biopsy has shown a growth in his throat was cancerous, but his prognosis is good and he expects to make a full recovery.

A man who removed his mask and deliberately coughed on a server at a Calgary bar last year has been convicted of assault.

British Columbia's top doctor says health authorities are speaking with each worker who has chosen not to get vaccinated in hopes of changing their minds, and the highest number of those employees are in the Interior region, where overall immunization rates are low.

Indigenous leaders in British Columbia have expressed concerns over the tight timeline and lack of support in the government's plan for old-growth logging deferrals, while they underscore the urgency of preserving at-risk ecosystems.

The Government of Canada hired Sustainability Solutions Group solutions to do a decarbonization action plan for federal buildings in Ottawa's capital region.

Canada may be able to climb down from its perch of being the worst among the G20 for international support for fossil fuels after signing on to a key energy financing plan at COP26.

A global coalition of private companies called Green Hydrogen Catapult is on a mission to scale up green hydrogen production and lower production costs so it is competitive with fossil fuels.

There is a strong alignment between clean energy project development and the principles of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), said Eryn Stewart, the managing director of the non-profit Indigenous Clean Energy (ICE). 

Thursday was a big day for Canada at COP26 — the country pledged to end foreign fossil fuel finance by 2022 and Quebec signed on to the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance — but observers are disappointed the country isn’t moving faster to ditch the planet’s dirtiest fossil fuel: coal. 

Quebec Premier François Legault announced Thursday at COP26 that the province is joining an international alliance to phase out oil and gas production independent of Canada.