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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said on Tuesday that if he became prime minister, he would sue pharmaceutical companies as a way to fund drug treatment ⁠ — but he wouldn't say what he would do about sites where users can consume drugs under supervision.

Authorities in British Columbia are investigating after 17 wild horses were shot in what Mounties are calling a "disheartening act."

The British Columbia government says it's rolling out a new framework for approving oil and gas projects that will ensure the province meets its emissions targets in the coming decades.

The Haisla First Nation on British Columbia's northern coast has been granted a provincial environmental assessment certificate for a floating liquefied natural gas facility.

The cows on Lyuba Pastushok's farm are like her "cheeky children," she explained in Ukrainian as she walked among her growing herd, gently cooing to them and softly petting their heads.

Preventing attacks where vehicles are used as weapons is difficult, but certain urban design measures might help avert them, an expert says.

Brazilian federal agents aboard three helicopters descended on an illegal mining site on Tuesday in the Amazon rainforest. They were met with gunfire, and the shooters escaped, leaving behind an increasingly familiar find for authorities: Starlink internet units.

Quadra Island's Climate Action Team is launching a food recovery program to tackle climate change and food insecurity in the small coastal community.

Algoma Steel releases more cancer-causing pollutants into the air than most companies in Ontario. But no one realized just how much was coming from the steel mill.

Charlotte Commonda plans to open a new point of service for the community centre in Gatineau, Que., by May to support the Indigenous Peoples who move to the city for school, health care and work.

Forest fires, burst pipelines, and chemical waste are just some of the more than 800 instances of environmental degradation recorded since Russia's invasion began.

"Mandating police to wear body-worn cameras is a transformational decision that will ensure all interactions with officers are objective," Public Safety Minister Mike Ellis said.

The agreement allows the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation to request the documents from the provincial Vital Statistics Branch. Until now, the documents were available to family members, while researchers and others needed to obtain special permission for any given document.

The Biden administration’s approval of a massive oil development in northern Alaska commits the U.S. to yet another decades-long crude project even as scientists urgently warn that only a halt to more fossil fuel emissions can stem climate change.

Two people were killed and nine others were injured on Monday, March 13, 2023, afternoon when a pickup truck plowed into pedestrians who were walking beside a road in the eastern Quebec town of Amqui, police said.