Jerry DeMarco

Natural health products like vitamin supplements are used widely by Canadians, but a lack of oversight from Health Canada has failed to guarantee the safety and efficacy of these products, a new report reveals.

Canada’s federal environment commissioner should be made an independent officer of Parliament, three experts told a House of Commons committee Monday.

Ontario’s auditor general released four reports on the state of the environment in the province Wednesday, finding that the Ford government is failing to follow the rules. While opposition parties slammed the Progressive Conservatives, Environment Minister Jeff Yurek said he was “proud” of his ministry’s work.

Ontario is allowing resource extraction in protected areas, failing to collect enough data to even know if it’s meeting its environmental responsibilities and not abiding by the rules, the province’s auditor general found in a series of scathing reports.

Ontario's Auditor General named the environmental policy and law expert as commissioner of the environment within her office, which has absorbed the province's independent environmental watchdog’s office after the Doug Ford government shuttered it.