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Canada is attempting to grow its influence on international climate negotiations, but its dramatic fossil fuel expansion plans threaten to undermine meaningful action, experts say.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took some heat Wednesday for Canada's fossil fuel expansion at a time when the science is clear that fossil fuels must be phased out, underscoring a gulf between rhetoric and action.

Expanded development on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, viewed as a climate refuge, is encroaching on prime wildlife habitat. As big cats find it harder to avoid people, many are winding up dead.

A new federal political party wants to be a centrist alternative to the Conservatives and Liberals, but doing so is easier said than done.

Ontario's Minister of Public and Business Service Delivery Kaleed Rasheed has resigned from cabinet and the Ontario Progressive Conservative caucus. Rasheed's departure follows an integrity commissioner's investigation into the controversial Greenbelt land swap.

With deadly extreme weather hitting all over the globe, rising temperatures peaking during the hottest summer on record and carbon pollution levels that keep climbing, Britain’s Prince William and wealthy entrepreneurs Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg promised a warming world a degree of hope.

One expert thinks Canada may be just at the beginning of a months-long diplomatic spat with India, as allies await more information on accusations New Delhi played a role in the death of a Canadian citizen.

The son of Sikh community leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar says his father met regularly with Canadian intelligence officers in the months before he was shot dead in British Columbia last June, a killing that's been credibly linked to India, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told the House of Commons on Monday, Sept. 18, 2023.

A new survey suggests that most Canadians feel news should be free and accessible for anyone, while also believing that media will find other ways to make money.

Protests and counter-protests for and against Canada's trans and LGBTQ community are being planned across Canada on Wednesday.

If you think your Wednesday is going to be busy, pour one out for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

It’s the environmental problem no one is paying attention to, argues Ben Goldfarb in his new book, Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet.

Sustainable finance could be an important step to paying for the energy transition to a climate-safe future, so why is it being used to tear down wind turbines to expand a coal mine?

The plan calls for all vehicles for hire, with the exception of stretch limousines and accessible vehicles, to be zero-emission by 2031. Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles would be allowed until Dec. 31, 2032.

Yet while Trudeau is urging India to take the matter seriously, Liberals also say they hope to maintain normal ties with a country Ottawa has selected as a key partner in the Indo-Pacific.