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Peel Region will expand its urban boundaries to accommodate expected population growth, bucking a trend of nearby municipalities that have defied the provincial government’s push for sprawl.

An Ontario judge has dismissed Ontario MPP Randy Hillier's request to have the terms of his bail conditions revised.

The federal government has set aside about $1.5 billion to compensate Indigenous people who have been without clean drinking water, the result of a class-action lawsuit initiated by First Nations communities.

American vaccine maker Moderna is to announce today, April 29, 2022, it plans to build its promised Canadian production facility in Montreal.

All 17 pediatric hospitals across Canada are looking out for an "unusual" childhood liver disease, but the number of possible cases under review remains in the single digits, British Columbia's provincial health officer said on Thursday, April 28, 2022.

The Conservative Party of Canada is now up to six contenders who are officially in the running for Erin O'Toole's former job.

There's fencing on Parliament Hill, an exclusion zone around several blocks downtown and hundreds of extra police officers on call as Ottawa braces for the arrival of "Rolling Thunder" motorcyclists on Friday, April 29, 2022, afternoon.

More than five years after being told it should enshrine the right to a healthy environment in its environmental protection act, the federal government is moving to do it.

An unusually early, record−shattering heat wave in India has reduced wheat yields, raising questions about how the country will balance its domestic needs with ambitions to increase exports and make up for shortfalls due to Russia’s war in Ukraine.

The “living soap opera” of breeding season offers an evolutionary window into group power hierarchies in the wild.

The oily and quick-growing species are a fundamental part of the North Atlantic Ocean food chain and ecosystem. They’re also overfished.

A recent Federal Court ruling to set aside a decision to phase out salmon farms in the Discovery Islands doesn't necessarily mean the issue is dead in the water, say First Nations and environmentalists.

The affordability of life has shrunk most drastically for young people due to inflation and job precarity or loss, including the post-secondary students whom Ontario’s provincial budget pitches as a pipeline of job-ready graduates in its pre-election budget.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford promised to sink more than $25 billion into building highways over the next 10 years as the Progressive Conservative government tabled its budget Thursday.

Ontario’s budget is perhaps most notable for what isn’t contained within its 268 pages.