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An environmental assessment of a proposed trade deal between Canada and the Mercosur countries ignores major environmental and human rights violations in Brazil, environmental advocates say.

When 40 Canadian Rangers swung into action in northern Quebec this week to set up heated tents for COVID-19 screening and conduct other tasks in their local communities due to the pandemic, they formed the most visible military response to the crisis to date.

Mining company Teck Resources Ltd. says it is purchasing the SunMine solar electricity generating facility in B.C. from the City of Kimberley.

As Canadian firefighters boarded flights on Wednesday, January 15, 2020, to battle blazes in Australia, they noted they will likely have to employ some different tactics than they do to fight local fires.

Projected production surge in next 12 years to be led by Shell despite climate crisis.

A Calgary organization that argues climate change is nothing close to a global emergency says Elections Canada is right to keep a close eye on campaign-period communications from the climate-change lobby.

A joint NAFTA panel has given the United States three months to rethink its tariffs on imported Canadian softwood lumber but the saga for Canada's troubled softwood companies is far from over.

Two leading Canadian activists say voters need to think about climate change as if we are a country at war against greenhouse-gas emissions.

With Jakarta jammed and sinking, the Indonesian government has chosen Borneo as the site of its new capital, which it promises to make a “forest city.”

Scientists have used recent B.C. fires to model the effects of nuclear war on climate.

Our health demands that rural and urban populations come together to fight the climate crisis.

After two record-setting wildfire seasons, some residents of B.C. and Alberta have decided that the twin threats of flames and smoke are too much to live with.

Ottawa plans to impose the federal carbon tax on Alberta starting Jan. 1 and federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says she has written the province about the decision.

In May 2016, a wildfire near Fort McMurray forced more than 80,000 people to flee the northern Alberta city, destroyed 2,400 buildings and burned nearly 6,000 square kilometres of forest.

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says forest fires have always been around and carbon taxes won't do anything to change that.