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For months, Canada's natural gas utilities have mustered lobbying efforts and funded online misinformation campaigns to fight efforts by municipalities to phase out the climate-warming fuel. And now they have a new ally with deep ties to the province's NDP to push the pro-gas message in the province's lefty media. 

A grassroots anti-noise movement aims to silence a serious urban health threat. Not everyone is on board.

The killer whale calf, named kwiisahi?is or Brave Little Hunter by the area's Ehattesaht First Nation, left a remote tidal lagoon for the ocean last Friday where she had been trapped since March 23 after her pregnant mother became stranded on a rocky beach at low tide and died.

In February, the United Conservative Party government announced new rules to develop renewable power in the province. They impose a 35-kilometre buffer zone around protected areas and what the government calls "pristine viewscapes."

The federal government is planning to create a new agent of Parliament to oversee modern treaty implementation, which Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says will ensure Ottawa is held to account no matter who is in power.

Capital Power's decision not to pursue its $2.4-billion Genesee project is unlikely to be the first of other such cancellations, said Scott MacDougall of the Pembina Institute, a clean energy think tank.

The Leger online survey found 57 per cent of respondents who said free speech in Canada is under threat.  

A federal commission of inquiry into foreign interference is slated to release a report today on alleged meddling in the last two general elections.

COP29 could make carbon markets permanent. Indigenous leaders are calling for a moratorium before it's too late.

Understanding our planet's climate history is more than just a trip down memory lane — it's essential to make sense of today's world. Professor Soren Brothers draws the throughline at the Royal Ontario Museum as he leads tours of an exhibit called “Climate History, Climate Hope.”

A new Building to Zero Exchange is helping the construction industry in Nova Scotia lower the carbon footprints of our homes — and help achieve our climate targets.

CNO is up for two Digital Publishing Awards. Chris Hatch has been nominated for his newsletter Zero Carbon and Matteo Cimellaro for a feature he wrote on last summer's fires and their disproportionate impact on First Nations.

New data shows Canada's greenhouse gas emissions are creeping up but still remain below pre-pandemic levels. But with oil and gas production pushing the sector's emissions higher, all eyes are on Ottawa's long-awaited, and now delayed, emissions cap policy.

A corporate decision to mothball Canada's largest carbon capture and storage plan — Capital Power's $2.4-billion Genesee project — is likely the result of financial uncertainty and technological risks, analysts suggest.

Unions representing public servants say they are blindsided and outraged by new rules forcing federal employees to work from the office at least three days a week.