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As tabled, the new Bill 185 — also known as the Cutting Red Tape to Build More Homes Act — and changes to the Provincial Planning Statement will pose a significant threat to the province's dwindling supply of farmland and lead to further urban sprawl in its place, critics contend.

The discovery that pollution from a paper mill is contributing to long-standing mercury poisoning afflicting the nearby First Nation is another example of how widespread and persistent the problem has become, federal MPs say.

Former president Donald Trump's ask for $1 billion in campaign donations from Big Oil seems a small price to pay to preserve the tax loopholes that his presidential opponent, Joe Biden, has indicated he intends to close.

Canada's primary subsidy for food prices in the North, Nutrition North, is failing to make food affordable there — and climate change is exacerbating the problem, says Nunavut's sole MP.

Heiltsuk leaders met with RCMP officials earlier this week over the "racist text and images" the officer posted on social media before joining the Mounties, but the officer remains on duty in Bella Bella and is awaiting a transfer.

The MP for Spadina-Fort York ran as a Liberal candidate in the 2021 election but the party dropped him days before the vote, saying he failed to inform them of a withdrawn sexual assault charge.

The Canada Infrastructure Bank is providing a $337 million loan to support the $900 million project by hydrogen company HTEC, which involves plans to build up to 20 hydrogen refuelling stations, with 18 of them in B.C. and the others in Alberta.

Health Minister Mark Holland says the government is open to adding more medications to the list of drugs covered by its proposed pharmacare program.

The B.C. Supreme Court has quashed a bid by the City of Surrey to halt a transition to a municipal police force, with the judge ruling the province has a right to exert authority over municipalities.

Extreme weather events have hit parts of Africa relentlessly in the last three years, with tropical storms, floods and drought causing crises of hunger and displacement. They leave another deadly threat behind them: some of the continent's worst outbreaks of cholera.

Federal Addictions Minister Ya'ara Saks says she had "deep concerns" about the lack of limits Toronto put on its now-rejected pitch to decriminalize the possession of illegal drugs — and the city health agency's refusal to make any changes.

Retailer London Drugs says cybercriminals who stole files from its corporate head office last month have released some of the data after it refused to pay a ransom.

The province's progress report and latest action plan to reform forestry is a hollow effort with none of the needed steps, specific details, or deadlines urgently required to keep what little old growth remains from being cut down, say environmental groups.

A global collaboration program involving three Canadian universities and one in Paris offers promising opportunities for young, climate-minded individuals to develop the skills that will help them effect meaningful change.

A new senate report details how reliant the Inuit and some coastal community economies are on the seal trade — and how badly their economies were devastated by the collapse of the European Union market for their products after campaigning by Paul McCartney and other activists.