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Temporary changes to the employment insurance program made during the pandemic are set to expire soon, jeopardizing access to jobless benefits for automotive workers in Windsor, Ont., who expect to be out of work in the fall, says a Unifor leader.

Premier François Legault says the fall provincial election campaign will launch "for real" on Sunday, August 28, 2022, following weeks of unofficial campaigning by political parties and billions of dollars already promised to voters.

Ukraine's ambassador to Canada says her country is investigating more than 28,000 suspected war crimes, including the killing of 373 children by Russian forces.

A member of Parliament says Ottawa may have underestimated Canadians' desire to travel when planning for a return to normal following the end of most pandemic restrictions.

Canada and Germany say a new hydrogen pact will kick-start a transatlantic hydrogen supply chain, with the first deliveries expected in just three years.

Patrick Laracy says the historic deal signed on Tuesday, August 23, 2022, between Canada and Germany involving hydrogen energy could be a boon for his company’s salt reserve in western Newfoundland.

Parts of the European Union could face three more months of warmer and drier conditions as Europe weathers a major drought that has fueled forest fires, dried up rivers and devastated crops, the 27−nation bloc’s Earth observation program is warning in a report.

Landslides of wildfire ash have poisoned tens of thousands of fish in the already-imperilled Klamath Basin.

The initiative aligns with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Call to Action 50, which calls on the federal government to support and promote Indigenous laws.

Liz Scott can't afford air conditioning in her sweltering two-bedroom apartment in Stoney Creek. She hopes the government will change the law to make landlords maintain a maximum temperature during the summer.

The surge in returns in the last decade to the waters off northeast Vancouver Island, where humpbacks were once eradicated by whaling, is an opportunity for redemption and continued conservation.

Canada has joined a global coalition of countries pushing for a proposed international treaty to tackle the world's plastic pollution crisis. Led by Norway and Rwanda, the group of 20 countries will push for rules to reduce plastic production and eliminate plastic pollution by 2040. 

A joint press release Tuesday announced the First Nation had reached an $84.45-million settlement with the federal and provincial governments for “the unauthorized and uncompensated flooding of reserve land.”

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the German chancellor are visiting the western Newfoundland town of Stephenville later today, August 23, 2022, where they're set to sign a green energy deal.

The federal Treasury Board says it has no plans to expand a bonus — now paid to employees who speak English and French — to those who know an Indigenous language.