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A pill to treat COVID-19 appears to be the country's best hope, outside of vaccines and strong public health measures, to keep hospitals from being overrun with cases of the virus now and in the future, doctors say.

Canada and China disagree on many things but Beijing's buy-in is essential on one key issue — helping end the Russian war on Ukraine, says Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly.

Russia vowed to continue its bloody offensive in Ukraine as the war neared its seventh week on Wednesday, April 12, 2022, as President Vladimir Putin insisted the campaign was going as planned despite a major withdrawal and significant losses.

Emails suggesting a former Alberta justice minister hired a political fixer to pull the phone logs of a reporter to trace her sources show how the province's politics has deteriorated, observers say.

Climate activists are urging more banks and insurers not to back the controversial $5 billion East African Crude Oil Pipeline that is primed to transport oil from the Hoima oilfields in Uganda to the Tanzanian coastal city of Tanga.

Key members of the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council said Tuesday that the Biden administration hadn't done enough to make good on its promise that 40% of all benefits from climate investment go to disenfranchised communities.

In the past, the price of failing to address climate change seemed theoretical, decades down the line. Today, we’ve already begun paying for it.

Premier Doug Ford’s government announced last week it would temporarily cut the province’s gas tax by 5.7 cents per litre and its fuel tax by 5.3 cents per litre, but not until July 1 — about a month after the provincial election slated for June 2.

The Ontario NDP proposed a $20 an hour wage floor for child care on Tuesday as political parties looking to unseat Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative government in a provincial election this summer focused on the gender pay gap.

The rosy economic projections come as Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government prepares to table its 2022 budget later this month in the lead-up to the June 2 election.

Extreme rainfall in southeast Africa has become heavier and more likely to occur during cyclones because of climate change, according to a new analysis released Monday by an international team of weather scientists.

Monica Kariuki is about ready to give up on farming. What is driving her off her 10 acres of land outside Nairobi isn’t bad weather, pests or blight — the traditional agricultural curses — but fertilizer: It costs too much.

British Columbia mayors whose communities were devastated by last year's flooding and wildfires want the federal government to deliver billions of dollars in promised funding as soon as possible.

Prince Charles and his wife Camilla are set to return to Canada in May, their first visit in five years, as part of the celebrations for the Queen's Platinum jubilee.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he wants to make it easier for more Canadians to drive electric vehicles and he isn't ruling out nuclear power as a cleaner source of energy.