Alberta

Alberta's environment minister has cancelled public information sessions about proposed new parks in a region known as Bighorn Country, citing "bullying" and "abuse" which she says make it impossible to guarantee people's safety.

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe is set apologize to survivors of the '60s Scoop at the legislature this morning.

A lack of pipelines isn't the only thing that has been choking Alberta's oilpatch, Canada's energy regulator says. The National Energy Board (NEB) has released a report that clarifies what has plagued companies in the oil-rich province over the past year.

Climate change is prompting glaciers in British Columbia, Yukon and Alberta to retreat faster than at any time in history, threatening to raise water levels and create deserts, scientists say.

A Vancouver-area First Nation's decision to support the Woodfibre LNG project may have come as a surprise to some, considering the nation's role in helping to derail the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion earlier this year.

An Environment Canada report says that despite much talk on preserving caribou habitat, little progress has been made to close gaps in the protection of the threatened species.

The Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation sought to block the expansion of Syncrude Canada Ltd's Mildred Lake oilsands operation in a filing to the province's energy regulator, adding another indigenous legal challenge to the region's resource exploitation.

The projects will create around 1,000 jobs and will leverage “our natural strengths as an energy province here in Alberta in every sense of the word,” Shannon Phillips, the province’s environment minister, said.

A string of politicians in Ontario and beyond have expressed outrage at the latest cut to social services from Doug Ford's Progressive Conservative government after National Observer reported it was retroactively pulling back funds from the Ontario College of Midwives on Thursday. Meantime, in another part of the country, Alberta's NDP government has announced an expansion of services.

It's unlikely a dramatic improvement in western Canadian oil prices since Alberta announced forced production curtailments two weeks ago will continue after the cuts begin on Jan. 1, a panel of experts agreed on Thursday, December 13, 2018.

Canada's largest business group has endorsed a carbon tax as the most efficient way for the country to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Conservative senators are being accused of deliberately stalling Liberal government legislation to keep it in the public eye for political benefit.

Another group has come out against United Conservative leader Jason Kenney's proposal to sell public land in northwestern Alberta to help balance the province's books.

A leaked audio recording appears to show that a contender for the leadership of Alberta's newly-formed United Conservative Party was pushed into running to foil the efforts of a top rival to eventual contest winner Jason Kenney.