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Avian influenza has killed millions of birds. Shots to prevent it already exist. Why isn’t the entire poultry industry using them?

Shawnesia Ottawa, an artist from the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation, teaches people in Maniwaki and Ottawa how to do beadwork and tan fish leather.

The Quebec government's crackdown on Airbnb has upended Montreal's short-term rental market, leading some to welcome the changes and others scurrying to evade the new rules.

Every Thursday to Sunday evening, the wait staff at the Ugly Duckling Dining & Provisions restaurant carefully set knives and forks on chopstick rests at each table.

The federal government now expects far more Canadians with long-overdue dental needs to sign up for its insurance plan, and the health minister says that's why the estimated cost has risen by $7 billion.

Alberta’s deputy premier says it was appropriate for Premier Danielle Smith to phone up a pastor and discuss his upcoming criminal trial on charges stemming from protests over pandemic restrictions.

Canadians in the prairies, two territories and Ontario will pay a bit more to fill their gas tanks or heat their houses next month as the national carbon price rises on Saturday.

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland has dismissed criticism that this week's federal budget lacks measures to address Canada’s housing crisis, saying last year’s budget featured a $10-billion plan that is still being spent.

All but one MP on the federal ethics committee has agreed with a proposal to reduce cooling-off periods for lobbyists doing political work. 

A bill exempting fossil fuels used for certain farming activities from the federal carbon price is headed to the Senate after the Conservatives, Bloc Québécois, NDP and Greens joined forces to pass it on March 29.

Advocacy groups say the federal government should have spent more on MMWIG and programming for Indigenous youth.

On the bottom of the Philippine Trench, 10,000 metres deep, plastic is reshaping life on the seafloor.

A private member’s bill that would require the federal government to examine the links between race, socio-economic status and environmental risk passed third reading in the House of Commons Wednesday with the support of the Liberals, NDP and Greens.

An unlikely coalition of a theme park owner, an animal rights group and an NFL owner-philanthropist plan to return Lolita — who has lived in captivity at the Miami Seaquarium for more than 50 years — to her home waters in the Pacific Northwest.

The Canadian government is introducing an automatic system next year to help vulnerable people who don't file their taxes get their benefits.