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The federal government is providing $870 million to support recovery efforts after destructive flooding in British Columbia last November, Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair announced on Monday, July 18, 2022.

Quebec's governing party defended itself on Monday, July 18, 2022, against accusations it underpaid and took advantage of a woman who appeared in a widely promoted election advertisement.

The prime minister got a first-hand look at how heat and wildfires in British Columbia last year combined with mild temperatures in the earlier months of 2022 have left fruit growers with a lighter than normal crop.

British Columbia's wildfire service has warned that warmer and drier weather expected throughout this week could fuel potentially volatile conditions as crews battle an out-of-control fire just west of the village of Lytton.

Britain shattered its record for highest temperature ever registered on Tuesday, July 19, 2022, amid a heat wave that has seized swaths of Europe — and the national weather forecaster predicted it would get hotter still in a country ill prepared for such extremes.

A heat wave broiling Europe spilled northward on Monday, July 18, 2022, to Britain and fueled ferocious wildfires in Spain and France, which evacuated thousands of people and scrambled water−bombing planes and firefighters to battle flames in tinder−dry forests.

A Mi'kmaw lawyer from the community at the centre of a violent backlash over its self-governed lobster fishery says she's "very hopeful" about a new Senate report that calls for the full implementation of Indigenous fishing rights.

Right whale numbers have steadily decreased since 2011, when the population was at around 481. Now, there are approximately 350. 

António Guterres tells governments "half of humanity is in the danger zone" as countries battle extreme heat.

With local crew shortages impacting BC Ferries' ability to transport ambulances overnight, Quadra Island residents fear BC Emergency Health Services is leaving them stranded in medical emergencies.

With enough research and development, cellular agriculture should be able to produce animal products in labs for human consumption.

On Monday, Environment and Climate Change Canada launched consultations on how to best cap and curb oil and gas sector emissions, teeing up a political battle.

The decision was delivered in an Ottawa courtroom Monday by Superior Court Justice Anne London-Weinstein.

Brown, who has served as mayor since 2018, had previously said he would consider seeking re-election if it seemed like he couldn't win the federal leadership. 

The sale is unlikely but if it did go through there would likely be "multiple players" involved in buying it, says Eight Capital analyst Phil Skolnick