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In the political ecosystem derided so frequently by the incoming president as a swamp, the jitters were palpable a year ago, its denizens perturbed by the prospect of dealing with, working for, and answering to the unpredictable political animal sloshing into their midst. Washington braced for Donald Trump.

The freezing drizzle had already been falling for four days when Normand Chaput left his home in St-Hyacinthe, Que., on Jan. 9, 1998.

About 1,100 customers were still without power late Monday, January 1, 2018, as crews worked to restore electricity after ice storms swept through British Columbia's Fraser Valley.

While they have slightly differing views on the landmark tax cuts just adopted in the U.S., and their potential effect on Canada, some of the country's leading fiscal-policy experts agree on one thing.

The National Energy Board expects fossil fuel use to peak in the next two years, then decline as a mix of carbon pricing policies and climate-friendly technologies push Canadians to make different choices.

The Site C dam forecast cost now is nearly $9 billion and one critic predicts it will be terminated.

A preliminary report raises more questions than answers about the future of the controversial $8.8-billion Site C dam.

An agreement to have Mexico join a NAFTA clause governing oil exports may be one of the first significant products of the renegotiation talks this weekend in Ottawa.

The federal government has handed out one of its first major contracts as part of a promise to run all of its operations on renewable energy within a decade.

Canada already has one of the world’s cleanest electricity sectors, generating 80 per cent of its power from non-emitting sources, but there is always room for improvement.

Ontario electricity distributors will no longer be allowed to disconnect customers’ power in the winter if they don’t pay their bills, which are steadily rising along with ratepayer anger.

Canada's relatively low carbon electricity supply and stable electricity demand is making it challenging for the wind and solar industries to expand their share of the market.

"It was power that we didn't need right now," said Ontario's energy minister.

Calgary-based TransCanada Corp’s Energy East project could disrupt the supply of electricity for millions of consumers in Ontario and Quebec.

The cost of electricity that solar and wind technologies generate is poised to drop dramatically by 2025, making renewable energy more affordable than ever before.