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If approved, the payment from Ontario Power Generation will go to Napanee's Community Benefit Fund, but activists say it’s an attempt to persuade a municipality to accept a polluting project.

Who should pay for climate-related destruction will be a contentious topic at COP28, and a new analysis shows that "carbon majors" have offloaded trillions of dollars of harm to the public while raking in trillions of dollars of benefit for shareholders.

Pacheedaht First Nation regains rights to steward its “missing link” after Middle Beach was taken without consent to create Parks Canada’s conservation gem on Vancouver Island. 

Durham University research found warnings of environmental or health impacts reduced people's choice of meals containing meat by seven to 10 per cent.

Canada falls behind nearly 90 per cent of countries in the world when it comes to banning harmful pesticides, including the European Union and Brazil.

With the annual United Nations climate conference just around the corner, environmental groups are calling for an end to subsidies that support burning forest biomass to generate electricity.

A billion-dollar battery cell production plant in Maple Ridge, B.C., will produce up to 135 million batteries each year as part of Canada's push toward clean technology, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2023, during a stop in Metro Vancouver.

Nearly seven million Canadians struggled with hunger last year, with some going without food for days amid rising inflation, says a Statistics Canada study.

Almost two in three Canadians have a negative impression of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and half want him to resign before the next election, a new survey suggests.

Climate activist Greta Thunberg arrived at a London court on Wednesday, Nov. 15. 2023, for a hearing over a public order offense after she was arrested last month at a demonstration against a major oil and gas industry conference.

“Really inefficient engine technology is, pound for pound, more polluting than cars and trucks.”

The number of electric vehicles and charging stations is surging in Canada and B.C., but the rollout is uneven, with rural or remote Indigenous communities facing extra roadblocks.

A bill to create more carbon price exemptions for farmers is in the home stretch in the Senate as the federal government faces sustained criticism for its decision to exempt home heating oil from the federal carbon pricing system.

The world is off track in its efforts to curb global warming in 41 of 42 important measurements and is even heading in the wrong direction in six crucial ways, a new international report calculates.

In August, the devastating Bush Creek wildfire in B.C.'s Interior roared its way 21 kilometres into the valley where Skwlāx te Secwepemcúl̓ecw sits. It destroyed 64 structures, including 34 community homes.