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An invoice obtained through a federal Access to Information request allows Canada’s National Observer to reveal a report commissioned by the RCMP, spying on activists' online activities

The oil and gas giant's profits reached US$14 billion, angering climate advocates as the corporation continues to grow its fossil fuel business while pulling back on low-carbon alternatives.

After an independent review, Justice Minister Arif Virani announced on Wednesday that Birju Dattani has agreed not to begin his appointment as chief commissioner of the Canadian Human Rights Commission on Thursday as planned.

Residents of small communities across Canada are finding creative ways of getting around Facebook's news blackout to share updates about dangerous weather events, but they say it's still tough to get information to people quickly on the platform.

Earth’s string of 13 straight months with a new average heat record came to an end this past July as the natural El Nino climate pattern ebbed, the European climate agency Copernicus announced on Wednesday.

More than three decades after Indigenous leaders in northern Alberta began asking for funding to better understand if pollution from the oilsands was making their people sick, the federal government is funding a study to do just that.

The fossil fuel industry’s carbon capture bamboozle, explained.

A new study from McGill University shows UFPs — primarily from vehicle emissions and industrial activities — are linked to approximately 1,100 premature deaths each year in Toronto and Montreal. About 600 of those fatalities occur in Toronto alone.

Experts express concern that salvage logging has no ecological benefit, contradicts B.C.’s promise to prioritize ecosystem health over timber, and the process should be reconsidered. 

Fossil fuel companies are pressuring the Canadian Sustainability Standards Board to weaken proposed rules to report on greenhouse gas emissions, threatening the country's ability to attract investment as the energy transition unfolds.

For two Inuit grandmas, rap was always for the younger generations until it wasn’t.

The Conservatives say they have no connection to a rash of conspicuously similar social-media posts that flooded the X platform following a Pierre Poilievre event in northern Ontario last week.

Health Minister Mark Holland is expected to provide an update on the federal government's dental-care program today.

The second woman to publicly accuse Alice Munro’s late husband of targeting her sexually when she was a child says she hopes her story will encourage parents to believe their children.

High waters that flowed over top of a massive landslide in British Columbia's Chilcotin River are churning in the Fraser River towards British Columbia's Lower Mainland today.