Catherine McKenna

Officials in many Canadian provinces are tightening anti-pandemic restrictions to keep St. Patrick's Day from becoming a COVID-19 super-spreader event.

Infrastructure Minister Catherine McKenna says for the first time Canada is to have a pool of money dedicated specifically to "active transportation."

The grant is supposed to cover the upfront costs of buying 5,000 buses over the next five years. The Canada Infrastructure Bank has also committed $1.5 billion as part of its three-year, $10-billion growth plan specifically for zero-emission buses and related infrastructure.

After months of social distancing, working from home, and going out only for essentials like groceries and exercise in nature, McKenna said the COVID-19 crisis has truly illuminated much more than the societal gaps and inequities. It has also shown Canadians what matters most.

Rachel Plotkin says we have all the data we need to save boreal caribou. “We just need the political will,” she said.

Capping a week of meetings with opposition leaders, Justin Trudeau met on Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, with the Green party's Elizabeth May, who says she will vote against the Liberal government in confidence motions unless the prime minister commits to measures that lower Canada's carbon emissions sharply.

A data analysis out of the University of Toronto shows that replies to McKenna’s tweets have intensified since the day federal carbon pricing took effect.

Newly re-elected Liberal MP Catherine McKenna says she has notified police after someone spray-painted a vulgar slur on the front of her Ottawa Centre campaign office.

The governing Liberal Party had largely positive results in Monday night's federal election when it came to key politicians on environmental files, with the exception of Amarjeet Sohi.

Canada's largest youth climate strike has been deliberately designed to be non-partisan.

Jagmeet Singh and Elizabeth May are continuing on the campaign trail today, September 21, 2019, while the leaders of the bigger parties take a break from the road.

Just over half of Canadians polled said they'd be more likely to vote for a political party or candidate who promised to cut the country's overall greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

There was momentum, and then it was gone. In an exclusive interview with National Observer, the environment and climate change minister defends her record despite recent electoral gains by the right.

After 15 years of negotiations, protests and court battles, the Peel Watershed Regional Land Use Plan now protects more than 67,000 square kilometres of wilderness in the Yukon.

Any decisions about future increases in the carbon tax would take into account the views of provinces and territories, the federal environment minister says, using language that sparked accusations from Conservatives that she was misleading voters about the future of the levy.