science

Canada’s science minister says universities aren’t doing the heavy lifting to appoint more female research chairs, so she wants to force their hands.

There are doodles of wind turbines and photos of four smiling people on the cover page of Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s new federal budget.

The scientists say at least 10 of 15 identified impacts from oilsands expansion on oceans are “certain” to happen from new coastal development, ocean shipping, climate change and the risk of spills.

Ocean research on Canada's East Coast received a major boost Tuesday when the federal government announced nearly $94 million in funding over seven years for a new institute based at Dalhousie.

According to a recent study, two thirds of U.S. students are taught climate change badly. How does Canada compare?

The federal fisheries department is urging the new Liberal government to rebuild after core science monitoring programs "atrophied" under the Harper government.

Five people on the front lines of Stephen Harper's ideological campaign against evidence-based decision making share their thoughts on what Trudeau's win means - and if it is really a new dawn.

As Conservative Ed Holder goes "missing" at debates, Liberal candidate Kate Young begins to close in.

The federal lobbying watchdog is asking for a budget increase to enable her office to modernize the way it registers lobbyists and keeps track of their activities — just as it's seeing a surge in lobbying sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic.