Canada

As the Alberta election results showed, the divide between Canada's urban and rural areas just keeps getting wider. If we care about national unity, we need to find a way to bridge that before it's too late, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Over the past few days, apocalyptic skies have darkened Tony Wawatie's traditional territory around Barriere Lake. Hundreds of wildfires are scorching Quebec's Abitibi-Témiscamingue region, forcing most of the First Nation's roughly 800 members to evacuate.

The battle against hundreds of wildfires continues, as almost every jurisdiction in Canada remains under either heat or air quality warnings from the federal government.

Most of Canada's greenhouse gas emissions cuts have been focused on just one sector: electricity generation. That's left the rest of our economy hyper-emitting and exposed.

Canada is dealing with a series of intense wildfires that have spread from the western provinces to Quebec, with hundreds of forest fires burning. And we're sharing the smoke with our neighbours to the south.

The weed war, which puts more than $528 million in crop losses on the line each year in Canada alone, has for the past 50 years been fought with an arsenal of toxic herbicides that harm human health and contribute to the biodiversity and climate crises.

State-sponsored hackers from China have been targeting U.S. critical infrastructure, cybersecurity officials from around the world, including Canada, warned Wednesday in a co-ordinated effort to root out the perpetrators.

An Iranian women's rights activist and film producer has lost her permanent residency and refugee status in Canada and now faces deportation and possible imprisonment in Iran.

Research published by the University of Waterloo last week found that in 2020, Canadians generated close to one million tonnes of e-waste — things like cellphones, computers, TVs and home appliances that are old, broken or unwanted.

Canada's spy agency has now been formally directed to investigate and disclose any foreign threats against parliamentarians or their families, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino said on Tuesday, while the Conservative MP targeted by Beijing urged his colleagues to go further.

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of — Canada and South Korea have agreed to co-operate on supply chains for critical minerals needed for electric vehicles as both countries work to strengthen their economic ties and reduce their dependence on China.

The government says yes. But the latest climate pollution numbers seem to tell a different story. Barry Saxifrage breaks it down for us.

A private member's bill from a Conservative backbench MP is stirring up debate over abortion in Canada, though the proposed legislation does not mention it even once.

High levels of carcinogenic gas near a medical sterilization facility in Scarborough, Ont., highlight a dangerous gap in Canada’s air quality monitoring, says the Environment and Climate Change Canada researcher who discovered the chemical in the area.

Canada is throwing its hat in the ring for a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council, pledging to advance issues from online speech to access to abortion.