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The Canadian Armed Forces found itself at a crossroads on Monday, May 30, 2022, as the military faced calls to finally end some of its closest-held traditions to end decades of broken promises — including by permanently leaving the prosecution of sexual offences by its members to civilian authorities.

A national freeze on importing, buying, selling or otherwise transferring handguns is a central feature of firearm-control legislation tabled on Monday, May 30, 2022, by the federal Liberals.

Seasonal or higher than normal temperatures across much of the country will offer Canadians a chance to enjoy the summer, but predictions from a prominent national forecaster warn the humidity could welcome a rather stormy few months.

Researchers are having a hard time explaining why Quebec had the country’s highest official COVID−19 death toll despite a relatively low number of excess deaths between March 2020 and October 2021.

As Ontario's electoral candidates float plans to reduce cost at the tills, food banks and food security experts say their food-focused approach is distracting from the main problem: Poverty and incomes.

According to a new study, chemicals dumped in the 1970s are still seeping into the food chain. But the Yurok Tribe is confident the birds will be OK.

Canada should play a leading role in the global push to make mass environmental destruction an international crime, the young people behind an open letter to the federal government say.

The Ring of Fire, about 500 kilometres northeast of Thunder Bay, is home to a 5,000-square-kilometre mineral deposit. The province’s plans include a $1-billion investment to build roads to access those deposits, but the project has been up in the air for years.

Canada's biggest banks are behind a controversial loan to the massively over-budget oilsands pipeline, new data reveals.

Electric vehicles lose their impact if they're powered by fossil fuels, say critics, but only three political leaders in Ontario have committed to phasing out gas-fired electricity generation.

Families of the victims of the Quebec City mosque shooter say they fear on Friday's, May 27, 2022, Supreme Court ruling means the 17 children who lost a father could one day meet the killer in the streets of Quebec's capital.

The rising price of oil may grab most of the headlines, but another commodity — natural gas — is on an even wilder ride and expected to hit fresh heights this summer.

Federal Conservative leadership candidate Patrick Brown says calling social conservatives "dinosaurs" in a book he wrote about his time in Ontario politics was "the wrong terminology"

The officially disclosed carbon footprints of Canada’s largest oil companies could balloon in size if tough new climate rules proposed earlier this year by a U.S. regulator come into effect.

A process is underway in British Columbia to temporarily defer logging in priority old-growth forests, allowing time for the government to work with First Nations to decide how they should be managed in the long term.