“Teck pulled out of a project that was a bad decision economically given their business case...and it was an even worse environmental decision," said NDP MP Laurel Collins.
Supporters of Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs and their bid to stop a pipeline across their traditional territories returned to the British Columbia legislature on Monday, February 24, 2020, night despite a court injunction prohibiting protests blocking entrances to the building.
The United Nations' top disarmament official says governments need to pay more attention to the "dark side" of artificial intelligence, including the implications of so-called killer robots that could take military decisions out of human hands.
Canada's poverty rate has fallen to a historic low in one of the sharpest three-year declines on record, the national statistics office says, but millions of Canadians still live below the poverty line.
Canada's border measures to guard the country against incoming cases of the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, will likely become less effective as the virus spreads, the country's chief medical officer Dr. Theresa Tam said on Monday, February 24, 2020.
Money laundering has distorted British Columbia's economy, fuelled the opioid crisis and overheated the real estate market, the province argued at the start of an inquiry into the criminal activity on Monday, February 24, 2020.
The court acknowledged “the deep concern amongst Canadians” about climate change and that “a number of provinces” agreed with pricing pollution, but called this an appeal to “majoritarianism."
Ontario police moved to break up a Mohawk camp near railway lines in eastern Ontario early on Monday but several more solidarity action popped up in other parts of the country in response, highlighting the challenge law enforcement and the government have in tamping down a movement in support of Indigenous rights and protection of the environment.
The shelving of the Frontier project triggered laments from some sectors of the business community, while others said the project was doomed from the start.
Hundreds of thousands of young Indigenous campesinos in Mexico are putting down their farming tools to seek work abroad as harvests continue to drop dramatically. Brutality and loneliness in a village of women in the heat of climate change
Traditional chiefs of the Wet'suwet'en First Nation maintained on Saturday, February 22, 2020, that they want to see RCMP gone from their territory and a halt to construction of a natural-gas pipeline on their lands to kickstart talks with the federal government and see a possible end to crippling rail blockades.