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When Elise Joshi was at the White House last year, her eyes welled with happy tears as President Joe Biden hosted thousands of supporters to celebrate groundbreaking legislation targeting climate change.

A small Yukon First Nation says it's dealing with an "opioid emergency" that is terrorizing citizens and families with violence, crime, overdoses and death.

A central government agency has found discrimination against workers within a Canadian institution specifically designed to root it out.

New Democrats are calling on the federal government to follow through with its promise to make a tax credit for caregivers a refundable benefit.

A prospective foreign influence registry must not be "overly broad" to avoid unfairly targeting members of the Chinese-Canadian community and other minority groups,a senator said on Thursday, March 16, 2023.

Federal opposition parties continued to call for a public inquiry into foreign interference on Thursday, March 16, 2023, as the NDP welcomed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's choice of a special rapporteur.

Canada's inflation rate likely took another dip last month, but with many Canadians still struggling with the cost of living, the federal government is facing pressure to deliver more help in the upcoming budget.

Officers embraced each other and wiped away tears on Thursday, March 16, 2023, as Edmonton's police chief relayed details of how two constables were shot and killed at an apartment complex while responding to a domestic violence call.

After policing the "Freedom Convoy," the RCMP came away with lessons learned, newly released documents show — including the need to better prepare for the potential targeting of emergency phone lines.

The department is being flooded with calls for change after a parliamentary committee examined how the federal agency conducts, interprets and acts on its own science. 

Buried in Arctic permafrost, the collection safeguards the world’s crop species — and is a magnet for conspiracy theories. Now, the public can take a look around.

Pond Inlet, the municipality of Clyde River and the hamlets of Whale Cove and Grise Fiord are expected to use the funding to add solar panels within the next three years. The hamlet of Arctic Bay is also expected to install solar panels with the funding but did not specify a completion date.

Late last month, Mitchell Scott watched from afar as the company he had nurtured from a farmer's market vegan "butcher" shop to a darling of Canada's nascent plant-based meat industry collapsed. 

Ken Sim said the accusations are "disgusting" and racially motivated, and he found the report "incredibly disappointing" for pointing to politicians of Chinese descent.

The majority of developing nations are set to miss out on the economic benefits of booming green technologies, slowing progress toward their climate goals and widening the inequality gap between rich and poor countries, a United Nations report warned on Thursday.