Canada

Canadian scientists are launching efforts to use satellites as benevolent eyes in the sky to monitor whales and other at-risk ocean creatures and keep them safe.

Moose populations are declining in many provinces, with the exception of Newfoundland and Nova Scotia’s Cape Breton. Wildlife researchers and First Nations say logging, sport hunting and climate change are to blame.

When Zhanyun Wang was a kid, his mother told him to avoid the sweet-smelling gases that sometimes drifted across his neighbourhood near Shanghai from nearby plastic factories. Anything that smelled "really nice," the now-researcher at the University of Zurich explained, was "probably very toxic."

Here are three charts showing Canada’s emissions problems — both with and without its oil and gas industry.

The world’s wealthiest polluting countries spend at least 15 times more on military and arms than climate finance for the world’s most vulnerable countries, a new report revealed in the final week of COP27 negotiations.

Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said the alliance has now reached 169 country and industry members and is on track to wind down over 75 per cent of coal power in the 38 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries by 2030.

Reconseal is a co-operative started by Inuk and non-Inuk sealers. The two are teaching each other hunting techniques, worldviews and cultures in the spirit of reconciliation while providing seal to urban Inuit in the South.

Lobbyists for Canada's meat and dairy industries are showing up with unprecedented visibility at the COP27 climate conference now underway in Egypt. The industries have at least one representative on the official Canadian delegation, a position that gives easy access to negotiators and closed-door meetings.

Reality check — as the world embarks on a fourth decade of climate meetings and promises, all three major greenhouse gases are accelerating upwards, unchecked. And Canada …

The effects of climate change bit a $20-billion sized hole out of Canada's economy last year, parliamentary budget officer Yves Giroux said Tuesday.

A new item is on the menu for the thousands of people gathering this month at COP27, the United Nations' annual climate conference: food. 

The struggle to keep farmland off limits for developers is a nationwide problem. Unlike the U.S. and many other countries, Canada doesn't have a national plan to protect farmland.

For the past several months, well over a thousand Indigenous children in Yukon schools have had access to something many Canadian students do not — an affordable daily lunch at school. 

Canada's relations with Britain, and negotiations for a new free trade deal, should get some stability with news that former U.K. finance minister Rishi Sunak will become prime minister, one expert on the file said on Monday, October 24, 2022.

More political tumult in Britain is likely to further stall trade talks with Canada, experts say — but Canada's high commissioner in London is more optimistic.