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Ontario's Superior Court of Justice has certified a class-action lawsuit alleging that Canadian authorities illegally strip searched federal inmates hundreds of thousands of times over three decades.

Justice Minister David Lametti says he will discuss reforming Canada's bail system when he meets with his provincial counterparts this Friday, March 10, 2023.

As members of Parliament gear up to grill the CEOs of Canada's largest grocery store chains, experts say elected officials should push for more transparency on why grocers are making so much money.

Greenhouse gas emissions from the way humans produce and consume food could add nearly 1 degree of warming to the Earth’s climate by 2100, according to a new study.

Increasingly unpredictable winter temperatures have Ontario maple syrup producers concerned about how climate change will affect the industry's future, with some pushing for environmentally friendly practices to reduce the sector's carbon footprint.

The move does not include calling a public inquiry into allegations of foreign meddling in Canada's elections, against the explicit demands of opposition parties.

At 87, Canada's icon of environmentalism is still angry and calling on people to be better

One of the great infrastructure challenges of the next few decades is to figure out which coastal sites should be abandoned and which can be saved. Lichens can help.

Azam Jangravi climbed atop an electrical transformer box in Tehran in February 2018, removed her headscarf and waved it at the crowd.

“We're daydreaming our way into absolute catastrophe,” he tells podcast host David McKie on the new episode of Hot Politics.

The bill, introduced by Joseph Schow, United Conservative Party MLA for Cardston-Siksika, seeks to bar federal officials from trespassing on private land. However, provincial cabinet ministers have been unable to provide examples of a single documented instance of trespassing by federal employees on private land in Alberta. 

There is a tight relationship between harmful forms of masculinity, right-wing extremism and the refusal to deal with the climate crisis.

The new global high seas biodiversity treaty finally offers binding protections to marine life across huge swaths of the open ocean and helps stem climate change and biodiversity collapse.

Drew Yewchuk of the University of Calgary's Public Interest Law Clinic is asking the province's Information Commissioner to investigate how and why the Alberta Energy Regulator chose not to release information on the leak at Imperial Oil's Kearl mine, despite direction in provincial law to do so.