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NDP MPP Jessica Bell says Ford is playing a game of distraction to fuel a culture war pitting drivers against cyclists to avoid attention to the provincial government’s failures on housing, healthcare and traffic congestion.

Officials say that during the call, Jason Nixon, Alberta's minister of seniors, community and social services, expressed his government's continued willingness to partner with Ottawa and to cost-match the additional federal funding.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a major drop in the number of new permanent residents Canada will accept in 2025.

A report by Équiterre says Canada should create a mandatory durability index, which would assign grades to appliances, making it clear how easy they are to repair and what their expected lifespans are.

As data centers consume more energy and renewable projects face connection delays, natural gas power plants stand to gain.

After last weekend's inconclusive election result, B.C. Green Party Leader Sonia Furstenau said Wednesday that she spoke briefly with NDP Leader David Eby, while a call from B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad went unanswered.

Liberal MPs were tight-lipped about what happened behind the closed doors but those who did speak with reporters as they left the meeting also said the party is united.

A report Wednesday by the Carbon Removal Alliance, a nonprofit representing the industry, outlined recommendations to improve monitoring, reporting, and verification. Currently the only regulations in the U.S. are related to safety of these projects.

Saulnier and other climate survivors delivered a petition calling for more support for wildland firefighters to legislators on Parliament Hill Wednesday.

Whether it's digging for metals and minerals for cellphones and electric vehicles or coal for power generation, mining around the world has skyrocketed since 2000, causing widespread destruction of tropical forests, degrading the environment and displacing Indigenous and local communities, the World Resources Institute says in a report released on Wednesday.

An oil salvage operation is underway on the fragile wreckage of a U.S. army transport ship that sank almost 80 years ago off coastal British Columbia in a race to head off an eruption of thousands of litres of oil that a coast guard official says is "near imminent."

Rumours have circulated for weeks about an undisclosed number of Liberal MPs who have signed on to the effort to oust the prime minister in the hopes of improving the party's chances in the next election.

The Greens announced Tuesday that Furstenau is staying on as leader despite losing her seat in the legislature, saying she was "instrumental" in B.C.'s 2017 minority government and her guidance of the party's new caucus will be "critical."

A First Nation in Quebec has won a case in the Superior Court over free entry mining claims.

On Monday night, Susan Holt's Liberals were elected with a majority and 31 seats, while incumbent premier Blaine Higgs lost his seat as part of a shift that left his Progressive Conservatives with 16 total.