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Saskatchewan's newly-minted premier, Scott Moe, has taken his anti-carbon tax message straight to Ottawa. "Everyone will lose because of some flawed ideology," he told a conservative audience at the Manning Networking Conference on Friday.

Former MLA Bill Boyd was in a Kindersley provincial court this week to face three counts under the Environmental Management and Protection Act and one count under the Wildlife Habitat Protection Act.

“Overwhelming” one resident called it. “Disgusting,” said another who inhaled the smell wafting through this western Saskatchewan town of 2,500 on Jan. 2.

Saskatchewan's next premier says his province needs to maintain a working relationship with the federal government despite their differences over the imposition of a carbon tax.

It took five ballots in the preferential system for Scott Moe, the former environment minister to win the Saskatchewan Party leadership.

One of the country’s most consistently popular premiers will be replaced this weekend and observers say it will be a struggle for the successful candidate to fill the former boss’s shoes.

Organizers cancelled two New Year's Day polar bear dips in Ontario because of the frigid temperatures, but not even a layer of ice could stop hundreds of people from plunging into the freezing waters of Herring Cove, N.S.

A year after Donald Trump's victory in the U.S. presidential election, it's not just the pollsters and pundits continuing to mull over whether a similar populist upheaval could ever take root in Canada.

Johnny Bower didn't really want to come to Toronto. But the pint-sized goalie with the big heart went on to become part of Maple Leafs lore.

Two years after Saskatchewan government and oil and gas industry officials discovered a string of 'serious infractions' related to dangerous hydrogen sulfide gas, Jeff Crawford, an unsuspecting oilpatch worker swallowed a toxic soup containing the substance. His life has never been the same.

​Justin Trudeau's Liberals scored another byelection upset Monday, snatching the British Columbia riding of South Surrey-White Rock away from the Conservatives.

In October, the federal department was slammed for inaction on meeting Canada's 2020 greenhouse gas emissions targets. Today, it said the country has made "good progress" on implementing its first nationwide climate change plan.

Lawyer Maureen Killoran, part of a high-powered team of six from a Calgary-based law firm, called for the National Energy Board to quash Burnaby's bylaws on Monday. The regulator entertained the possibility of granting the pipeline company's request.

The city has blamed the company’s incompetence for delays, explaining that Kinder Morgan has struggled to follow the rules that apply to all developers. But during a hearing on Wednesday, a lawyer for the city, Gregory McDade, objected to "softball questions" from the NEB to Kinder Morgan.

Saskatchewan Energy Minister Nancy Heppner dismissed The Price of Oil investigation's findings, while inside the Ministry of Environment, a Saskatchewan official praised it as "thorough and impressive."