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Houston: We have a solution
The Texas city’s housing-first approach has been widely lauded for tackling chronic homelessness. Can we learn from its model?
Suncor strikes deal to explore oilsands extraction with Fort McKay First Nation
Suncor said it is in the process of conducting early-stage technical and commercial feasibility assessments to determine the quality and quantity of mineable bitumen ore in the area, which is located within the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo in northern Alberta and on the Fort McKay First Nation's traditional territory.
B.C. gardeners mourn the damage caused by cold snap
Across British Columbia's south coast, gardeners are finding dead or damaged plants due to the cold snap that sent temperatures plunging to -13.7 C in Richmond. As spring nears, hydrangeas are bare of buds and evergreens are losing their foliage.
Global heat wave continues
For the ninth straight month, Earth has obliterated global heat records — with February, the winter as a whole and the world's oceans setting new high-temperature marks, according to the European Union climate agency Copernicus.
Former minister Selina Robinson quits B.C. NDP, citing antisemitism in caucus
"I can't continue to be the only voice speaking up against antisemitism and Jew hatred," said Robinson. "All of this has made Jewish people feel unsafe and I have shared all of this with the premier's office over the last five months and I continue to be the only one who is saying we have to do something differently."
Family killed in Nashville plane crash lived in King Township near Toronto
An Ontario town is mourning a family of five who died in a Nashville plane crash earlier this week.
Two adults, four children found dead in Ottawa-area home
Ottawa police are investigating the deaths of six people including four children and two adults found in a home in the city's Barrhaven area.
Michael Spavor settles with federal government over China detention
He did not elaborate and no other details were immediately available; media reports suggest the settlement is worth as much as $7 million.
Greenwashing death threats ‘show you who the Conservatives are,’ NDP leader says
Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh slammed the federal Conservatives on Wednesday for spreading falsehoods that left his party's natural resources critic facing death threats and homophobic slurs.
Fury after Exxon boss says public to blame for climate failures
Darren Woods tells Fortune that consumers are not willing to pay for a clean energy transition, prompting backlash from climate experts.
Climate progress? Can’t bank on it
Stubborn fossil fuel financing and severely out-of-step renewable investments mean Canadian banks are undermining climate progress.
Something fishy? Calls to investigate Alberta coal mine
Environmental groups want the federal government to investigate construction on an Alberta coal mine expansion for potentially violating federal law that protects endangered fish and their habitat.
NDP pushing feds to fund school food program in April budget
Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh called on the Liberals to deliver on an outstanding promise to create national school meal program backed with funding in the pending budget as he toured a Vancouver Island food bank on Wednesday.
First Nation sues the Alberta Energy Regulator over oilsands tailings leak
The Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation has served the Alberta Energy Regulator’s president with a notice of a lawsuit.