B.C. First Nations people continue to be disproportionately impacted by the opioid overdose crisis during the pandemic. Though First Nations people comprise 3.3 per cent of the province's overall population, they represent 16 per cent of all overdose deaths as of May 2020.
Environmental assessments are often a major factor in deciding which projects get approved. Critics say the Ontario premier’s planned changes to that system, done through a COVID-19 economic recovery bill, could undermine environmental oversight and maybe even slow down the system.
Almost 50 B.C.-based groups are included in a letter telling Trudeau they “stand ready to provide staff, research and resource support” to help Canada devise a strategy to achieve its biodiversity and climate targets.
An open letter written by Hamilton MP Bob Bratina says the government “can and must” direct a portion of infrastructure spending designed to revitalize the post-COVID-19 economy into the “national public health crisis we face in the form of lead-contaminated drinking water.”
Canada and the United States are now widely expected to extend their mutual ban on non-essential cross-border travel as COVID-19 destroys President Donald Trump's hopes for a quick end to America's public-health nightmare.
Federal opposition parties are demanding to know why the Liberal government created a $900-million program to help students find volunteer positions rather than putting the much-needed funds into an existing summer jobs program.
A group of students, alumni and some staff at St. Francis Xavier University are pushing back against a legal waiver that students are required to sign if they want to return to classrooms in the fall amid a global pandemic.
First of its kind in the world, the new technology extracts hydrogen from orphaned oil wells and repurposes oilfields to produce close to zero-emissions fuel.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has apologized for not recusing himself from the government's decision to have WE Charity manage a $900-million student-aid program, saying his family's longtime involvement with the organization should have kept him out of the discussions.
The federal government is for the second time extending its program to subsidize wages in companies hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, this time until at least December.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau urged Donald Trump to think twice on Monday, July 13, 2020, before imposing new tariffs on Canadian aluminum, saying the sector is emerging from the pandemic-induced production stance that prompted the White House to consider such measures in the first place.