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Long gone are the days of sloppy joes and pepperoni pizzas being the only offerings at post-secondary cafeterias. Now, Canadian colleges and universities are setting and surpassing sustainability targets for plant-based food offerings.

A new report released Tuesday by the United Nations’ expert panel on biodiversity makes the case for a different approach based on addressing the “nexus” between two or more out of five essential issue areas: climate change, biodiversity, food, human health, and water.

The case was brought by seven young people who argue Ontario's weakened emissions target violated the Charter.

It says the incident involving about a dozen cars from a CPKC train on its mainline east of the Fraser Canyon community happened on Sunday due to a rockslide.

Elizabeth May says in all her years on Parliament Hill she has never seen anything like the last week in Canadian politics.

As temperatures drop in Montreal, homeless shelters are overcrowded and warming stations — furnished with chairs, not beds — are at capacity. Unhoused people wander around subway stations, while others sleep standing up in 24-hour restaurants. Many are pitching tents to survive the winter.

Insp. Scott Pettis told reporters at the scene that the gas came from a vehicle that had been left running inside a garage to warm up. The exhaust built up as the door was left unopened, he said.

Growing up on Guam, Julian Aguon saw the law used against Indigenous peoples. Now he's fighting back.

Friday’s cabinet shuffle is widely seen as an attempt by Trudeau to plug the holes before the Liberal ship capsizes, but nonetheless there are positive signals for the climate concerned.

It says it will ban new mountaintop removal mining and new open-pit mining on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains.

Trudeau is moving to plug gaps in his front bench after several in cabinet have decided not to run again in the election next year but he is not moving around the big players on his team.

In a letter to Canadians, Singh says the NDP will vote to bring down the government regardless of who leads the Liberals.In a letter to Canadians, Singh says the NDP will vote to bring down the government regardless of who leads the Liberals.

Dominic LeBlanc is helping Justin Trudeau hold the house together even as a growing number of Liberals turn on the prime minister.

The province has been waiting for months for the review and a figure from the province's actuary

B.C.’s new Energy Minister Adrian Dix could electrify the province’s low carbon economy if Premier David Eby’s NDP government opts to wean itself off LNG.