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Municipalities have been aggressively urging the federal government to commit more dollars toward infrastructure, noting their communities cannot significantly ramp up homebuilding to match population growth without things like water supply and roads. 

Health care and education came out ahead on Thursday in a generally restrained Alberta provincial budget forecasting a paper-thin surplus that could easily go up in smoke.

A new analysis shows at least $2.8 trillion in damage from 2000 to 2019 through worsened storms, floods and heat waves.

The swimming pools, well-watered gardens and clean cars of the rich are driving water crises in cities at least as much as the climate emergency or population growth, according to an analysis.

Atlantic Canada led the way among Canadian cities when it came to population growth last year as the Moncton, N.B., and Halifax metropolitan areas recorded the highest rate of increase in the country, according to data released on Wednesday, January 11, 2023, by Statistics Canada.

Far from Bali's beaches and hotels, farmer I Ketut Jata stands on a mountainside, staring at terraced land that is too dry to grow the rice his family has long relied on for food and income.

Despite the best efforts of park volunteers like Cynthia Dwyer, Canadian cities are losing greenspace, a Statistics Canada report shows.

The data showed more than 1.2 million people, or 3.5 per cent of Canadians, lived in the downtown portion of one of the country’s 41 large urban centres in the spring of 2021.

A study from Halifax makes the case for mid-sized buildings and less demolition, rather than highrises galore.

Scientists calculate that by 2100, over 400 million people could live in low-lying, at-risk areas — and that's a conservative estimate.

The vast growth of bedroom communities surrounding bigger cities in Alberta is undermining efforts to cut carbon emissions in urban centres. 

Human cost of climate crisis will hit harder and sooner than previously believed, research reveals