Canada

As King Charles III begins his reign after the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, environmentalists will be watching how — and if — the new monarch will continue to advocate for climate action and the environment. 

Alberta has sided with a coalition of major plastic producers suing to stop the federal government’s efforts to reduce plastic pollution. 

The pandemic brought an influx of funding to charities, giving a boost to programs that cut food waste. But with that money now gone, researchers and food redistribution organizations are looking for alternative ways to prevent the problem.

We have our own authoritarian undercurrents in this country, and commitment to our democratic form of governance is at an all-time low, writes Steve Anderson. 

A delegation that included Indigenous Services Minister Patty Hajdu and Indigenous leaders signed a knowledge-sharing arrangement with officials from Aotearoa-New Zealand last week.

Two weeks of United Nations negotiations for a high seas treaty have ended in failure, with wealthy countries slowing down the process and Russia acting as "a key blocker" in the discussions, says Greenpeace.

Higher food prices have pushed some of the more than 60,000 temporary farm workers who come to Canada each year to skimp on their own meals so they can make sure their relatives at home are able to afford food.

Winnipeg-based New Flyer Industries is the country’s leading electric transit manufacturer but “Buy American” legislation means the bulk of those highly desired zero-emission jobs are travelling south of the border.

Winnipeg Free Press columnist Niigaan Sinclair on the 2015 secret deal between the Harper government and Catholic leaders to discharge the church from its legal obligation to raise $25M for residential school survivors.

Commercial salmon fishers and environmentalists are crying foul — for opposite reasons — after U.S. fisheries officials let American fishers hit the water while the Canadian government kept their counterparts ashore.

Canada and Germany say a new hydrogen pact will kick-start a transatlantic hydrogen supply chain, with the first deliveries expected in just three years.

Patrick Laracy says the historic deal signed on Tuesday, August 23, 2022, between Canada and Germany involving hydrogen energy could be a boon for his company’s salt reserve in western Newfoundland.

Canada has joined a global coalition of countries pushing for a proposed international treaty to tackle the world's plastic pollution crisis. Led by Norway and Rwanda, the group of 20 countries will push for rules to reduce plastic production and eliminate plastic pollution by 2040. 

A joint press release Tuesday announced the First Nation had reached an $84.45-million settlement with the federal and provincial governments for “the unauthorized and uncompensated flooding of reserve land.”

The photo with Jeremy MacKenzie wasn’t Pierre Poilievre’s first exposure to the Diagolon movement, writes columnist Max Fawcett.