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The political landscape in British Columbia has shifted with John Rustad's Conservatives now carrying the centre-right banner heading into a fall election campaign.

The collaborative effort, run through the B.C. Parks Foundation, protects more than 250 acres of previously privately-owned land on the Salish Sea — home to a rare ecosystem of endangered coastal Douglas fir.

When the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) announced Imperial Oil had to pay a $50,000 administrative penalty, it said this was the maximum base amount allowed under the Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act. This is "absolutely not" accurate, according to experts.

A battle over Canada’s clean electricity future is heating up as the David Suzuki Foundation accuses a prominent electricity industry lobby group of misleading the public.

Sabotage. Property destruction. For Léna Lazare and her cohort, radicalized by years of inaction on the environmental crisis, these aren’t dirty words. They’re acts of joy.

One of 39 nations that pledged to end non-domestic support for fossil fuels at the COP26 climate change conference in 2021, Canada spent $6.75-billion less last year backing new sector projects, according to International Institute of Sustainable Development

Falcon says nominations of BC United candidates will be withdrawn to allow the Conservatives to draw from them for its election slate, less than two months before the provincial election on Oct. 19.

Energy Minister Stephen Lecce says energy companies must get municipal support in order to proceed and banned solar installations on prime agricultural land.

A judge convicted Jeremy Skibicki last month of first-degree murder in the 2022 slayings, which put another spotlight on the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Canada.

Cellphone use will be restricted in all British Columbia school districts when pupils return next week, as the province becomes the latest to curtail the use of the devices by students.

The Insurance Bureau of Canada says the wildfire that tore through Jasper is the second-most expensive one in Alberta's history for insured losses.

When UBC food safety researcher Tianxi Yang became a mother, she wondered how much microplastic her son would ingest when drinking milk out of widely available plastic containers.

Van Bergeijk joined a crowd of more than 300 protesters outside the Township of Wilmot council meeting on Monday, demanding an immediate halt to the expropriation of 311 hectares of farmland. They argue that this “forced acquisition” by the Region of Waterloo would have a devastating impact on Ontario's food security, farmers' livelihoods and the environmental health of the community.

Groups say the B.C. Coastal Marine Strategy should be the first step toward a law to protect coastal habitats from shoreline development, but similar attempts out east have not gone to plan.

Renewable energy is already well on the way. Now, researchers on the East Coast are turning their attention to increasingly complex energy storage solutions to empower wind, solar and geothermal to help it truly supplant fossil fuels.