Catherine McKenna

Canada and the rest of the world have punted a lot of the hard work on climate change ahead, leaving a massive "to-do" list for 2018. National Observer's managing editor, Mike De Souza, just back from Germany, analyzes the state of play in the complex international negotiations.

Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna helped bring more than 25 new governments on board for a Canadian-driven push to power past coal on Thursday at international climate change talks.

To say that Hassan Yussuff was frustrated Wednesday would be putting it politely. “There are other adjectives I will not use," the president of the Canadian Labour Congress told National Observer after hearing the government still has no "just transition" policies lined up for fossil fuel workers who will lose their jobs.

A U.S. effort to stoke the fires of coal-powered electricity didn't escape the attention of Canada's environment minister on Monday, Nov. 13, 2017, as Catherine McKenna used her Twitter account to troll the carbon-based fuel just as American officials were extolling its virtues.

Catherine McKenna said that Canada is leading efforts to introduce new provisions in the Paris Agreement that force countries to address the impacts that climate change has on women. She said the goal is also to ensure that there are more women at the negotiating table.

One governor invited President Trump to take a 'slog through the mud' in the Arctic. Meantime, a former governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, ridiculed the White House for promoting a revival of coal, comparing it to someone trying to invest in Blockbuster.

Fully 79 per cent of Canadians believe we “face a catastrophe if we fail to do more.”

Climate change talks in Germany are headed for a collision course on coal this week — and Canada is right in the middle of it. This year, the parties to Paris are hammering out rules for how that accord will be implemented, how carbon will be counted and how countries will be held accountable for their emissions cuts.

Now, I know the advice that many of us abide by. Don’t feed the trolls and by in large, I don’t. I’m breaking this rule because I think the misogynistic and violent nature of certain comments and potential links to pro-oil platforms needs to be called out.

Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna and Science Minister Kirsty Duncan confirmed on Wednesday that they were freeing up new federal funds to send a lifeline to the Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory (PEARL) — arguably the most important Arctic research lab in the world.

Federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says she hadn't planned to confront a reporter from the Rebel during a news conference last week, but when the right-wing website posed the first question at a news conference in Vancouver, her pent-up frustrations at the outlet's "climate Barbie" tag just came out.

Asked about the report on Tuesday, Environment Minister Catherine McKenna didn't say Canada won't increase its ambition by 2020, but neither did she say Canada would.

There is a "disconcerting lack of real results," found a sweeping audit of 19 federal departments on environment and sustainable development.

Canada's environment minister says she's fed up with the sexist comments women in politics have to put up with, and she accuses conservatives of being the worst offenders in the misogyny department.

Elimination, laceration or privatization: inside the Trudeau government's full-court press to save ENERGY STAR from Trump's budget knives.