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In Skwlāx te Secwepemcúl̓ecw First Nation, where last summer fires in B.C. destroyed homes and buildings, elders are smiling and laughing again.

The Kitasoo Xai’xais First Nation's Gitdisdzu Lugyeks Marine Protected Area is getting international recognition but is being overlooked at home in Canada, falling victim to foot-dragging by the federal government.

Tuesday’s proposed amendments are designed to insulate Ottawa from potential court challenges over its authority to regulate major projects in provincial jurisdiction, but environmentalists fear the feds are retreating from their responsibility to fight climate change.

Immediately before the events, Justin Trudeau had accused Poilievre of associating with far-right extremists and said a person who does so is not fit to be prime minister.

A federal inquiry into foreign interference has yet to present its initial report, but the Liberal government is already advancing plans to overhaul a suite of national security laws and procedures.

For the first time in the process, negotiators discussed the text of what is supposed to become a global treaty. Delegates and observers at the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution called it a welcome sign that talk shifted from ideas to treaty language at this fourth of five scheduled meetings.

And as the federal government seeks to stem international student flows with a two-year cap on study permits, even the immigration minister has singled out Conestoga College in Kitchener

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will do everything he can to protect local jobs, he promised on Monday, as he met with a union concerned that foreign workers are taking Canadian jobs at a new electric-vehicle battery plant in southern Ontario.

Confused shoppers milled around the front of a London Drugs store in downtown Vancouver on Monday, some wondering aloud why they couldn't access the store to get prescriptions or buy hair dye.

Located smack-dab in the middle of the Athabasca oilsands, Fort McKay is the bull's-eye on the dart board of the world's third-largest crude oil reserve. 

Ermineskin elder Wilton Littlechild told an ominous story about the death of a language to those attending the recent United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Peoples.

A Liverpool co-op illustrates how energy-efficient buildings are more affordable in the long term and is a good model for communities looking to address the housing crisis.

Montreal is often praised for its green initiatives but people in disadvantaged neighbourhoods often get short shrift when it comes to green spaces.

Farmers spread treated human waste on their crops. And it's full of forever chemicals.

Winning the Mary Ann Shadd Cary Award for column writing is not easy; this category gets more nominations than any other and Max was up against the largest news organizations in Canada.