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Canada's energy sector will be the recipient of a wave of public and private investment dollars in the coming decade, experts say, as the push to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 gains momentum.

Natural gas and electricity prices in Europe have plunged from summer peaks thanks to mild weather and a monthslong scramble to fill gas storage ahead of winter and replace Russian supplies during the war in Ukraine. It's a welcome respite after Russia slashed natural gas flows, triggering an energy crisis that has fueled record inflation and a looming recession.

When Alberta MLA Glenn van Dijken tabled a bill last April that would prevent institutional investors from buying up farmland in the province, he knew the move would raise eyebrows. A staunch member of the United Conservative Party and self-proclaimed "free market guy," he was typically loath to regulate a booming industry. 

Young climate activists stressed the need for Mississauga to improve its inadequate and voluntary green measures during this month's election campaign, while councillors told them it's up to developers or the province to fix.

Ten participants are eligible for up to $1,525,000 each in funding over three years, for a total of just over $15 million, to support clean energy projects in remote Indigenous communities.

But experts question if money will be enough to fix the health crisis in B.C. or anywhere else given the unending impasse over transfer funds between Ottawa and the provinces.

Federal ministers and the Assembly of First Nations expressed disappointment Tuesday as the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal decided against approving a historic, $40-billion child-welfare settlement agreement. 

Persistent overdependence on fossil fuels — globally and at home — is jeopardizing the health of Canadians and people in all corners of the world, researchers warn.

People should grieve the death of humpbacks as individuals because it helps us comprehend how human actions impact whales as representatives of the ecosystem, a B.C. researcher says.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford and former solicitor general Sylvia Jones are challenging a summons to appear as witnesses at the public inquiry examining the federal government’s use of the Emergencies Act.

Eco-activist David Suzuki says it's time for him to pass the mantle to a new host of CBC’s “The Nature of Things.”

Canada's relations with Britain, and negotiations for a new free trade deal, should get some stability with news that former U.K. finance minister Rishi Sunak will become prime minister, one expert on the file said on Monday, October 24, 2022.

Quebec's professional order of nurses is launching a campaign this Halloween to encourage Quebecers to ditch "sexy costumes" in favour of more realistic nursing uniforms.

The population of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales isn't declining as fast as it was five years ago, but researchers say the latest numbers show the species is still having a tough time surviving and reproducing.

In the days leading up to the mass protest in Ottawa last winter, police didn't have intelligence suggesting the "Freedom Convoy" would use local citizens as a "leverage point" and didn't factor in the risks the convoy posed to the community, interim police chief Steve Bell said on Monday, October 24, 2022.