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The federal government has started to give away money to encourage people to buy electric cars, but before long it will have to decide how far it will go to force the market towards lower-emission vehicles.

Alberta still doesn’t have regulations in place to determine how to operate its much-vaunted “hard cap” on oilsands emissions, first announced in late 2015.

By the time the Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) — an agency that operates within Health Canada — re-approved the use of glyphosate on April 28, 2017, Canada had been notified of 68 "serious incidents" from April to October 2016 involving glyphosate where complainants alleged they had developed cancer due to exposure.

Standing side-by-side with his long-time colleague, Sidney Ribaux mischievously threw a light jab at a gaggle of journalists and TV cameras deployed for a Friday morning news conference. He didn't expect to see so much interest for a briefing about pesticides, he said with a smile.

Équiterre has accused Quebec's elections watchdog of trying to "muzzle environmental groups" and is defying the watchdog's demand to remove an election campaign survey from its website.

Canada's pesticide regulator, the PMRA, is accused of turning a blind eye to problems with three of the most popular pesticides on the market.

Quebec announced on Friday that it's banning oil and gas exploration and exploitation on Anticosti Island and has reached an agreement with three of the companies which had permits.

The new panel reviewing TransCanada Corp.'s controversial Energy East pipeline project plans to consider the upstream and downstream greenhouse gas emissions associated with its operations.

Is the phasing-put of the largest selling "bee-killing" insecticide in Canada actually a victory for science and the environment, or a well-worn strategy to swell corporate coffers?

The minister’s view that it’s time to hit the reset button flows not only from a concern for “due process”, but also from concern for the well-being of a sizeable chunk of Canadian citizenry.

Mayors request that new panel members be named, before the NEB resumes its work in the review of the Energy East pipeline project.

Three dozen environmental groups from across Canada are calling on the government to suspend federal hearings into the Energy East pipeline and launch a public inquiry into the NEB's private meetings.

Environmentalists say a moratorium on oilsands tankers off the Atlantic coast must be imposed to protect sensitive coastlines and iconic species at risk from a proposed TransCanada pipeline project.