Clean energy now provides more employment than the fossil fuel industry, reflecting the shift that efforts to tackle climate change are having on the global jobs market, according to a new report.
The Hamilton chapter of ACORN Canada, a group representing low- and moderate-income people, held a rally Wednesday to draw attention to people living in sweltering rental housing.
Students converged on the downtown campus of the University of Toronto this week for orientation activities that were missing from the last two years of pandemic-affected academic life.
Relying on the Quadra Island volunteer fire department to maintain ambulance service in the community threatens patient safety, risks burning out firefighters and limits the response to blazes during the height of wildfire season, the fire chief says.
The pandemic brought an influx of funding to charities, giving a boost to programs that cut food waste. But with that money now gone, researchers and food redistribution organizations are looking for alternative ways to prevent the problem.
The RCMP could get more federal funds to combat the increasing harassment and threats directed at Canadian journalists, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in response to a recent call for action. But more dollars for policing won’t address the problem, journalists and targeted individuals say.
Coalition Avenir Québec Leader François Legault is promising to ask the province's hydro utility to consider building new hydroelectric dams, but he is not saying where or how he would realize the complicated, expensive megaprojects.
Premier Jason Kenney says his party was founded on a strong Alberta within Confederation and he won’t sit idly by while one of the candidates vying to replace him pitches a "risky, dangerous, half-baked" and "banana republic" plan for more provincial independence.
A brutal Western heat wave brought California to the verge of ordering rolling blackouts but the state’s electrical grid managed to handle record−breaking demand.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet are in Vancouver on Monday for the start of a three-day retreat as they prepare for a fall sitting of Parliament, a new Conservative leader, and the ongoing pressures of the COVID-19 recovery and inflation.
Voting has ended in the Conservative party's leadership election — but its members still need to wait until Saturday, September 10, 2022, to find out who their next leader is.