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Ottawa is spending $2 million for an international organization to provide Indigenous communities with options for identifying possible human remains buried near former residential school sites.

Pink sea urchins off the coast of Vancouver Island are expanding into shallower waters, in what researchers say is an indication of how rapidly climate change is affecting ocean life.

When Mayor Shane Brienen of Houston, B.C., thinks about the impact of the impending closure of the town's sawmill, he worries not only about the economic fallout.

About one million square kilometres of Quebec is covered by boreal forest, roughly 70 per cent of the entire province. In the north, where ecosystems are less likely to have been altered by human activity, those forests have been accumulating and sequestering immense quantities of carbon for centuries.

The federal government has presented a new health-care funding offer that would see Ottawa shift $196 billion to the provinces and territories over the next 10 years in exchange for commitments to massively upgrade health-care data collection and digital medical records.

Yet another global conference in Montreal risks being derailed by Canada's delays in processing visas as well as rejections that critics argue punish those from poorer countries.

Federal Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos will ask the provinces today whether or not they intend to accept the new health-care funding deal tabled by the prime minister.

The federal government is being urged to follow through with its commitment to develop a Black Canadian justice strategy.

Inflation has eroded purchasing power for many Canadians, but the experience with rapidly rising prices has been far from uniform.

As one woman’s journey to register for status under the Indian Act comes to a head, a lawsuit aims to make Canada pay for the damage the legislation may have caused.

If you agree to provide some of your car’s battery power in times of high energy demand, you’ll get paid, and help make the grid more stable.

First Nations leaders in Ontario are demanding greater inclusion and accountability from their treaty partners in the provincial and federal governments.

The proposed Tang.ɢwan — ḥačxwiqak — Tsig̱is Marine Protected Area covers a 133,000-square-kilometre swath of open ocean on Canada's West Coast and harbours a unique concentration of hydrothermal vents, underwater sea mountains and rich deep-sea biodiversity hot spots found nowhere else in the world.

Heather House studies full-time through McGill University’s distance education program, and when she is not immersed in books, she is raising her eight children with her husband in Chisasibi, the northernmost community in Quebec that is accessible by road.

A new poll suggests a majority of Canadians still see the United States as their country's closest ally, even in an age of isolationism and protectionist policies.