Norm Sterling — who oversaw cuts to the environment ministry’s budget that were later found to have contributed to what happened to the Walkerton E. coli outbreak — was a Progressive Conservative environment minister under the Mike Harris government.
When Eric Enno Tamm was young, his family’s catch of fish was sent to market with a paper slip recording what species it was and who caught it. It was a tenuous link for a product likely to go through several hands — processors, transporters, retailers — on its path from sea to plate.
Reaction to the B.C. budget from clean energy think tanks and environmental groups in the province has ranged from, at best, tepid to, at worst, scathing.
The federal NDP is pushing the Liberal government to make permanent the emergency COVID-19 benefits it put in place early in the pandemic, arguing in a non-binding motion on a guaranteed livable income that such an effort would help eradicate poverty.
Cities, like people, can be smart. They can use technology and data to improve the efficiency of operations and movement. That's what was up for discussion at the Nobel Prize Summit on Wednesday.
The British Columbia Supreme Court has rejected a Wet'suwet'en bid to quash the extension of the environmental assessment certificate for Coastal GasLink's natural gas pipeline, which was at the centre of countrywide protests last year.
Join Infrastructure and Communities Minister Catherine McKenna and Canada’s National Observer editor-in-chief Linda Solomon Wood on May 4 for a Conversations event about climate-focused infrastructure spending and Canada's future.
On Day 2 of the Nobel Prize Summit, the celebrated immunologist, who received death threats last year after he corrected Donald Trump’s pandemic lies, had a warning for scientists seduced by the proximity to power.
Climate experts and the federal Green Party say Canada’s new commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is severely lacking. "It's a disgrace,” said Green MP Elizabeth May.
The Catholic school board in Halton rejected an effort to get its schools to fly the Pride flag this June and to display signs confirming its classrooms are safe spaces for LGBTQ+ students and staff year-round, a move the student who started the push called “an act of cowardice.”
By 2050, when the federal government has pledged to reach net-zero emissions, the planned highway could have created up to 17.4 million tonnes (or megatonnes) of greenhouse gases, according to a report from Environmental Defence.