Ottawa

For earthquake scientists, having hundreds of millions of people off the streets and out of the skies is providing a bonanza of data about the planet.

As the number of confirmed coronavirus cases continues to grow in Canada, different provinces and cities have set up different rules meant to slow the spread of COVID-19. 

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be updating Canadians again today, March 22, 2020, on the latest measures being taken to try to protect the country against the steadily escalating COVID-19 threat.

While Canada's response to the COVID-19 outbreak has taken off drastically in the last week, some have found it lopsided across the country.

Ottawa's plans to respond to possible COVID-19 outbreaks in remote, fly-in and already vulnerable Indigenous communities are getting a failing grade from opposition politicians who say they display a troubling misunderstanding of the needs and conditions in these areas.

A cruise ship that's been floating off the coast of California for days amid coronavirus concerns is set to dock in Oakland today, March 9, 2020, setting the stage for Ottawa to bring the 237 Canadians aboard the Grand Princess back home.

The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations is calling for calm and constructive dialogue to ease tensions over a British Columbia pipeline project and the nationwide protests it's spawned.

Residents of northeastern Nova Scotia anxiously awaiting word from politicians in Halifax and Ottawa on the contentious plan by Northern Pulp to pump 85 million litres of effluent a day into the Northumberland Strait.

As of April, New Brunswick consumers will stop paying the federal carbon tax and pay a provincial tax instead

Members of Alberta's United Conservative Party have shown overwhelming support for measures that would give the province more autonomy from Ottawa amid simmering separatist sentiment.

Ottawa is seeking help to avoid what it says could be the extinction of some British Columbian salmon species because of a massive landslide on the Fraser River that sparked a co-ordinated emergency response this year.

Canada's cities say the federal Liberals are willing to find creative ways to remove political roadblocks from provinces to fund billions in municipal projects, a sign of hope that comes as they ask Ottawa for more money and new ways to fund local work.

The first-ever Green MP outside B.C. talks Western alienation, supporting oil and gas workers, Indigenous education, banning a popular pesticide ingredient and more.

Alberta and Saskatchewan were painted a solid Conservative blue on Monday, October 21, 2019, but leaders must now wrap their heads around getting resources to market with a Liberal minority government in Ottawa that will need the help of other parties to remain in power.

At least 25 "innocent" Canadian children are trapped in a refugee camp not far from where Turkey has launched a military offensive in northeastern Syria, an international charity said on Thursday, October 10, 2019, as it called on Ottawa to act now to rescue them.