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A string of major Canadian universities committed in 2020 to consider climate change when managing their assets. The C.D. Howe Institute took a look at how they’ve done since.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau isn't going to provide more details about his government's pledge to send a new round of military aid to Ukraine — at least not yet.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the circumstances in Afghanistan are "heartbreaking" but Canada is facing challenges in processing refugees trying to flee the war-torn country.

A Quebec duck-farming operation says three of its facilities have been devastated by avian flu, forcing it to slaughter 150,000 birds and lay off nearly 300 employees.

Chief Byron Bitternose of George Gordon First Nation says members of his community had hoped they would never discover graves near the site of a former residential school.

Canadians can now give cash or Aeroplan points to help bring Ukrainians fleeing the war with Russia to safety in Canada.

One year ago, Joe Biden marked his first Earth Day as president by convening world leaders for a virtual summit on global warming that even Russian President Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping attended. Biden used the moment to nearly double the United States’ goal for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, vaulting the country to the front lines in the fight against climate change.

For the past year a company that “mines” cryptocurrency had what seemed the ideal location for its thousands of power−thirsty computers working around the clock to verify bitcoin transactions: the grounds of a coal−fired power plant in rural Montana.

Experts say Canada needs to develop a robust system to detect COVID-19 activity in the absence of wide-scale PCR testing.

Federal officials feared a repeat of the 2020 rail blockades one month before RCMP enforced an injunction last fall against protests that cut off access to a pipeline construction site in northern British Columbia.

Prominent firearm-control advocates are urging the Liberal government to abandon plans to allow provinces to ban handguns, saying regional measures will lead to a disastrous patchwork across Canada.

Inspired by stories of her great-grandmother’s journey to Canada and early life here, Lorena McNamara teamed up with her mother to collect and retell those of almost two dozen of ‘le femmine forti’ — the strong Italian women who immigrated here after the Second World War.

A tiny B.C. island community is preparing for a potential tussle with logging giant Mosaic Forest Management over its big trees and wetlands.

Companies want to build pipelines to capture and store carbon, but a new report warns that regulators aren’t prepared.

Canada's National Observer has been nominated for two Canadian Association of Journalists awards in the human rights reporting and online media categories.