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As of 11 p.m., a little more than 60,000 homes and businesses in Quebec were without electricity. The province's power utility said the affected area ranged from Gatineau in the west to Montreal's suburbs, with strong gusts and broken tree branches bringing down power lines. 

Asymptomatic cases may seem reassuring for the penguins, but scientists fear they could act as Trojan horses for other species.

Nova Scotia Federation of Agriculture’s Living Labs project aims to help farmers better tackle climate change.

Most Canadians support a crackdown on single-use plastics and less plastic production, a new poll indicates just weeks before international negotiations kick off in Ottawa on a global plastics treaty.

Manitoba Hydro can’t escape its emergency reliance on natural gas as demand ramps up for electric power.

B.C. Premier David Eby's loyalty to the carbon tax has landed him at the centre of a political maelstrom on carbon pricing, which the BC Green Party calls a distraction from the big-picture solutions needed for climate change.

This week, Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston sent a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau where he presented his “Still Better Than a Carbon Tax” plan, which he insisted would “do far more to address climate change.” It follows his first attempt to skirt the tax in August 2022. That plan was similarly titled “Better Than a Carbon Tax.”

The federal New Democrats delivered the news in a joint announcement, saying all three want more family time after years of dedicated public service.

"This is a critical initiative," New Democrat MP Leah Gazan, who represents the riding of Winnipeg Centre, said last month as a House of Commons committee began studying her "Red Dress Alert" proposal.

Canadian airlines say travellers won't see their flight times affected by Monday's total solar eclipse, though passengers should protect their eyes during the astronomical event.

Saskatchewan had forecast a more than $1 billion surplus for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, but fresh budget documents released last month show that surplus has completely evaporated, leaving it with an approximate $482 million deficit for the year instead.

Canadian company Planetary Technologies turns to bold new ideas to tackle ocean acidity.

Extreme heat and droughts are making it harder to grow grapes in many traditional regions. Here’s how scientists are helping the industry adapt.

Canada's approach to combating foreign interference rather than tackling it on a riding-by-riding basis was unfair to voters, former Conservative leader Erin O'Toole told a federal inquiry Wednesday — and he thinks it could even have cost him his job.

Four miles from the nearest plowed road high in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains, a 73-year-old man with a billowing grey beard and two replaced hips trudged through his front yard to measure fresh snow that fell during one mid-March day.