An Ontario nuclear power company is getting $20 million from Ottawa to try to get its new small modular reactor in line with Canada’s safety regulations.

Chief Mike Sack of the Sipekne’katik First Nation has asked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to send additional law enforcement personnel to the area to ensure violence against Indigenous fishers is contained.

In a statement issued on Twitter, BC NDP Leader John Horgan says he wished he had given a different answer when the three party leaders were asked how they have reckoned with white privilege.

Since the Mi’kmaq fishery opened last month, there have been tensions on and off the water, with traps hauled from the sea by non-Indigenous harvesters and a boat belonging to a Mi’kmaq fisherman burned at a wharf.

"There was something about the round shapes being next to each other that set off some trigger," said Jackson McLean, the manager of Gaze Seed Co. in St. John’s, N.L.

A well-known conservationist who met with an Alberta cabinet minister at a diner says he's stunned two police officers did unauthorized surveillance on the informal meeting before one followed his vehicle.

Interim CEO of Alberta Energy Regulator says "a couple of dozen" staff were laid off with more to come by the end of February as part of a restructuring that aims to make the regulator more efficient.

The company behind the $6.2-billion Coastal GasLink pipeline in British Columbia says it's made a deal to sell a 65 per cent equity interest in the project, which has sparked protests and arrests.

Communities across much of Eastern Canada are bracing for more flooding today, with rain in the forecast from central Ontario to northern New Brunswick.