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Petro-states fought hard to ensure the COP27 implementation plan does not address fossil fuels directly

Construction on the Woodfibre LNG project in Squamish, B.C., is set to take off in 2023 but the “curious and gregarious” nature of sea lions could make the construction “neither technically nor economically feasible.”

Residents of mobile homes are six to eight times more likely to die from indoor heat exposure compared with residents of other types of housing.

If "confidentiality" stays in the final version of Article 6, regulators will have a severely limited scope when investigating a country's created carbon credits. The move could leave a backdoor for double-counting and fake emission cuts.

This month, the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board announced the results of this year’s call for bids — a process in which companies are invited to offer money for areas in the Atlantic Ocean they want to explore for oil and gas deposits.

The Opposition NDP’s Kristyn Wong-Tam sought the unanimous consent of Ontario's legislature earlier this week to create a committee to improve access to trans health care. The government House leader rejected it.

As many as 250 businesses are backing a resolution urging B.C.’s new Premier David Eby to stave off the extinction and climate crisis by backing the federal government’s 30x30 promise — to protect 30 per cent of the country’s land and waters by 2030.  

The clock is ticking to land an agreement for COP27, and Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault says Canada will support a proposal to launch a loss and damage fund –– with a few conditions.

The world’s wealthiest polluting countries spend at least 15 times more on military and arms than climate finance for the world’s most vulnerable countries, a new report revealed in the final week of COP27 negotiations.

In this part of northeastern Czech Republic, huge piles of coal are stacked up ready to sell to eager buyers and smoke belches from coal-fired plants that are ramping up instead of winding down.

Canada won't agree to add language calling for the phaseout of all fossil fuels — including oil and gas — to the final agreement at this year's United Nations climate talks in Egypt, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said on Thursday, November 17, 2022.

Electric-vehicle sales in Canada grew by more than one third in the first half of this year but they are not keeping pace with the rest of the world.

British Columbia's outgoing premier says he has offered a helping hand in resolving the gridlock over health care funding between provincial and territorial leaders and the federal government.

Ottawa will maintain a respectful relationship with China, International Trade Minister Mary Ng said on Thursday, November 17, 2022, although she warned that Canada's biggest trading partner in Asia has changed.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's national security adviser and other senior officials felt the Canadian Security Intelligence Service's threshold to determine a national threat under the Emergencies Act "should be reconsidered," a public inquiry has learned.