Politics

Canada's former environment and climate change minister received the Chevalier honour from the French government ahead of the Paris Summit aimed at international financial reform.

Conservatives keep pretending that Justin Trudeau wants to "phase out" Alberta's oil and gas industry. But as a new report from the Canadian Energy Regulator shows, it's the rest of the world they should probably be worried about, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

The International Monetary Fund warns that Canada's green subsidies could stoke an international race to the bottom, even as it credits the country for a "multipronged" approach to addressing climate change.

Mark Healey, an incident commander with the BC Wildfire Service, says he took a 2 1/2 hour flight over the southern flank of the enormous Donnie Creek fire in northeastern British Columbia.

More than one in four Canadians told a polling firm this week that they have been affected by the record-setting wildfires that have rocked much of Canada over the spring, and more than three in four say they think there are more fires now than in the past.

There is no line in the sand between his government and Alberta over energy and climate policies but there is also still a lot of daylight in their respective visions, Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said on Monday, June 19, 2023.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday, June 19, 2023, he remains confident his government will eventually support a connected loop of Atlantic and Quebec electricity, allowing the Maritimes to end its reliance on coal.

Four byelections have returned seats back to the Liberals and Conservatives in strongholds many observers expected to remain status quo.

Justin Trudeau wants to be the first prime minister in more than a century to win four elections in a row. In order to do it, he's going to have to make major changes to his government before Canadians get a chance to do it themselves.

Voters in the federal riding of Calgary Heritage will go to the polls late next month.

Four new MPs are set to be elected to the House of Commons on Monday in a handful of byelections that political watchers say could expose rifts within the Conservative party and bring a new Liberal cabinet hopeful into the fold.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's attempt to block the federal government's budget bill from passing earlier this month is the latest example of government spending coming under scrutiny amid high inflation.

Canada's top court will deliver the final word on Friday on whether the pact between Canada and the United States to control the flow of asylum seekers violates their fundamental rights.

A bill aimed at getting tech giants such as Meta and Google to pay publishers for news that appears on their platforms is one step closer to becoming law.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's office says he learned about the prison transfer of Paul Bernardo the day it happened — a day earlier than Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino.