Politics

The federal government's ban on plastic straws and grocery bags is in question after the Federal Court ruled Ottawa had overstepped its bounds in designating all "plastic manufactured items" as toxic.

More competition is needed in Canada’s grocery sector as consumers grapple with higher food prices, said Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, after two of the country's largest grocers reported higher sales and profits in the most recent quarter.

A Conservative private member's bill to exempt more fuel used by farmers from the carbon price is stirring up intense lobbying efforts in the Senate, and leaving the Liberals on the verge of being forced to carve up their signature climate policy even more.

More electric vehicle charging stations are on the way as the Canada Infrastructure Bank says it has signed a second funding deal to expand fast-charging options.

Whether it's the high cost of housing or the low level of our climate ambitions, young Canadians are getting a raw deal right now. Why that's showing up in the Liberal government's dreadful poll numbers, and how they could go about changing them.

Who should pay for climate-related destruction will be a contentious topic at COP28, and a new analysis shows that "carbon majors" have offloaded trillions of dollars of harm to the public while raking in trillions of dollars of benefit for shareholders.

A billion-dollar battery cell production plant in Maple Ridge, B.C., will produce up to 135 million batteries each year as part of Canada's push toward clean technology, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2023, during a stop in Metro Vancouver.

Nearly seven million Canadians struggled with hunger last year, with some going without food for days amid rising inflation, says a Statistics Canada study.

Almost two in three Canadians have a negative impression of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and half want him to resign before the next election, a new survey suggests.

A bill to create more carbon price exemptions for farmers is in the home stretch in the Senate as the federal government faces sustained criticism for its decision to exempt home heating oil from the federal carbon pricing system.

David Eby is a lot of things: the premier of British Columbia, the MLA for Point Grey, and Canada's last competent defender of carbon pricing. Is he also the federal NDP's leader-in-waiting and the person who can finish the work Jack Layton started?

Canada's climate policy is built on the foundation of an economy-wide carbon tax. But as that continues to get eroded, it's worth asking if there's a better way forward — and if are there lessons we can learn from the ongoing attacks on the levy.

The federal and provincial governments will each invest $900 million over the next four years to accelerate housing construction in Quebec, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Quebec Premier François Legault confirmed on Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023.

At a meeting of Pacific leaders in the Cook Islands, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced a plan that will initially allow up to 280 Tuvaluans to come to Australia each year. Tuvalu has a population of 11,000, and its low-lying atolls make it particularly vulnerable to global warming.

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is expected to table the federal government's fall economic statement on Nov. 21, 2023, a mini-budget that will serve as an update on federal finances and contain new measures that reflect the government's priorities.