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Federal officials are set to make an announcement today in Vancouver about Canada's long-promised Indo-Pacific strategy.

British Columbia has asked First Nations if they want old-growth forests set aside from logging, allowing time for long-term planning of conservation and sustainable development, but it has yet to fund the process on a large scale, advocates say. 

Campaigns for food bank donations are a staple of the holiday season, but some Canadian food insecurity researchers say the appeals can be tough to swallow.

The inquiry into the Liberal government’s historic choice to invoke the Emergencies Act to quell weeks-long demonstrations against COVID-19 mandates last winter is now moving into its public policy phase.

Prince William and the Princess of Wales will be looking to focus attention on their Earthshot Prize for environmental innovators when they make their first visit to the United States in eight years this week, a trip clouded by tensions with William's brother, Prince Harry, and his wife, Meghan, who have criticized Britain’s royal family in the American media.

Shaheen stretched out on the sand and closed his eyes, but there was little time to rest for the camel. World Cup fans coming in droves to the desert outside Doha were ready for their perfect Instagram moment: riding a camel on the rolling dunes.

“Yes, it’s a catastrophe,” Elizabeth Weil writes of climate change. “And no, you would not be better off if you continued to tell yourself otherwise.”

The boards of Canada’s largest pension funds are already inundated with fossil fuel connections and the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan is about to add a former executive with ongoing ties to the industry to the mix.

The Edge, located inside the Youth For Christ centre in downtown Winnipeg, is the city’s only full-sized indoor skatepark.

Concerns over questionable RCMP tactics raised by an officer involved in the crackdown at the Fairy Creek old-growth blockades in the summer of 2021 are not surprising, says a lawyer representing dozens of activists.

A Toronto soccer team is on the lookout for armbands showing support for the LGBTQ community after officials forbid players from wearing them at the World Cup in Qatar.

In Part 2, after a peaceful reclamation of the army base built on their land in 1993, elders of Stoney Point led a movement to take back Ipperwash Provincial Park. Racism and political interference turned that peaceful movement into a violent act of state aggression on Sept. 6, 1995.

"And I am absolutely, absolutely serene and confident that I made the right choice in agreeing with the invocation," said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in testimony today.

Saskatchewan is to soon gain control of the carbon pricing charge that shows up on residents' power bills.

The full effects of interest rate hikes have yet to be felt — and will be "even more powerful" than many anticipate, said former Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz on Thursday, November 24, 2022, in a speech about ways Canada can chart a path toward economic growth during uncertain times.