climate change

On the surface, the Canadian government's commitment to gender equality in climate change policy is inspiring, but two youth delegates to the COP23 negotiations say it still doesn't go far enough.

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.

The National Research Council says Canada's homes and highways were built with assumptions about weather patterns that are no longer relevant thanks to climate change.

A prominent climate scientist says Canada has fallen behind on its commitment to scientific research in the Arctic and that has an effect on its sovereignty in the North.

It seems odd that a major U.S. government climate report released November 3 didn’t receive more media attention. But then, the main thing newsworthy about the Climate Science Special Report is that it was released at all, apparently without political interference.

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.

The single biggest element of Canada's national emissions reduction plan might not be unveiled on time.

In July 1925, the State of Tennessee put a substitute biology teacher named John Thomas Scopes on trial for teaching children about evolution in the Tennessee public schools.

One month into her new job as Canada's Governor General, Julie Payette is taking on fake news and bogus science.

"So you're the Rebel Media that happens to call me 'climate Barbie.' I certainly hope that you will no longer use that hashtag," Catherine McKenna said.

According to popular Canadian astrologer Georgia Nicols, Canada's Governor General should be doing what she can to "keep the peace" with loved ones today and avoid the "planetary vibe" that is urging people to engage in power struggles and disputes.

To an international diplomat, the irony is painful — the country that promised action on climate change is falling behind while the country that has spurned a major treaty on the issue is making progress.

When she graduated in June of this year, Patricia Deveaux won a Governor General’s Academic Medal for having the highest grades in her high-school class. Meanwhile, she had long since learned the ropes in the world of work, having talked her way into a job at a local hotel when she was 13. “She was always the one I looked up to,” says her 16-year-old sister, Lissa.