Northerners could get relief from sky-high grocery bills if Ottawa were to help regulate and encourage the sale of food harvested from the land, a federal advisory board has concluded.
Conservation groups and First Nations have filed legal action in the hope of forcing Environment Canada to protect Alberta caribou herds after federal findings that the province has failed to do so.
Parks Canada says it won't go ahead with a plan to build a bike trail along the scenic Icefields Parkway that runs through Banff and Jasper national parks.
Yan Boulanger, Marc-André Parisien and Katalijn MacAfee sat down with National Observer in Ottawa on Nov. 1 to discuss their research into boreal caribou, and the habitat that supports them.
Ottawa has posted a tender asking engineering firms to assess how climate change and extreme weather will affect some of Atlantic Canada's major ferry terminals, airports and the Confederation Bridge.
Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna couldn’t provide specific details about how Canada intends to add an area roughly the size of Saskatchewan to its protected jurisdiction, within 18 months.
Scientist David Suzuki writes that the Forest Products Association of Canada appears to have "an ulterior motive" in recognizing climate change is a serious threat to forests and habitat, and vowing the sector is doing its part to fight climate change through work in forests, mills and through the products that it makes.
Forestry scientists have compiled evidence showing how corporations, think tanks and industry lobbyists have "seeded doubt about the need for boreal caribou habitat conservation.”
Alberta is suspending portions of its draft plan to protect threatened woodland caribou, saying more research needs to be done and that Ottawa needs to help out.
A 40-year battle over oil drilling in an Arctic wildlife refuge in Alaska could become the latest political irritant in a growing list of disagreements between Donald Trump and Justin Trudeau.