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The Conservative Party leader said he didn’t know he would be seated with Rich Kruger, the CEO of one of Canada’s largest fossil fuel companies, last week at the black-tie Politics and the Pen dinner, an event which was heavily sponsored by Kruger's company Imperial Oil.

The Vancouver Aquarium is suing the city and park board over the 2017 cetacean ban for breach of contract and claiming it lost millions of dollars in revenue.

Postmedia has hired a lobbying firm with close ties to Alberta Premier Jason Kenney in order to participate in the United Conservative Party government's new $30 million public relations war room" in support of oil and gas companies.

Never in my lifetime have I seen such intense propaganda unleashed in Canada, as the Ontario government’s attack on carbon tax, writes Gerald Kutney.

Oh, Canada. We may not have a national mythology built on a phrase like the American 'Life, liberty and the pursuit of Happiness,' but we do have a myth based on the refrain that 'Ottawa Liberals hate Alberta.'

The Green Party of Canada has introduced a sweeping climate change plan that promises to stop foreign oil imports, create a non-partisan federal cabinet and turn Canada's economy carbon-free by the end of the 21st century.

The constitutional challenge by several provinces of federal carbon pricing failed. And though they bray at redoubled volume about an appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada, odds are low that they will succeed there either.

The shift to a low-carbon economy is "underway" and sectors like oil and gas, as well as the banks that loan money to them, are exposed to risks from climate change that could spill over into destabilizing "fire sales," the Bank of Canada said Thursday.

The world is preparing for climate-driven migration in the worst way possible, not by attempting to mitigate and tackle the root causes of climate change, but with increased militarization and tougher immigration policies.

As small towns write off millions of dollars in unpaid taxes from Alberta’s slumping oilpatch, Premier Jason Kenney’s government says it has sprung into action to find solutions that help both the industry and the municipalities.

The newest Green MP spoke to media for the first time on Parliament Hill on May 10 alongside his new boss, Green Party Leader Elizabeth May, after winning a by-election on Monday in Nanaimo-Ladysmith on Vancouver Island.

Montreal building owners will have a little more than a decade to rid themselves of their oil furnaces as the city moves to ban the use of heating oil from its territory by 2030.

Canada is seeing an electorate that is “sick of the political classes” and is now putting climate change at the top of its priority list, said Shachi Kurl, executive director of the Angus Reid Institute. Paul Manly won the federal Vancouver Island riding of Nanaimo-Ladysmith for the Greens, capturing 37.3 per cent of the vote, 12 points ahead of the closest competition.

The Saskatchewan government will appeal the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal ruling Friday that said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's carbon tax is constitutional. The ruling is the first in a series of court challenges launched by conservative-leaning premiers who have declined to impose a price on carbon pollution.

If the allegations are true, it would mean that consumers were likely deprived of opportunities to buy cars with the latest clean technologies.