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With the release of Canada’s first National Adaptation Strategy to come before November’s COP27 in Egypt: talks of climate adaptation, mitigation, and sometimes, retreat.

Researchers say yellowfin and bigeye tuna catches are on the rise outside a 1.5-million-square-kilometre marine protected area, proving the value of a no-catch zone.

A massive wood pulp producer with ties to a conglomerate responsible for destroying huge swaths of Indonesian rainforest is set to acquire yet another Canadian forestry company in two weeks' time.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre did not attend the press gallery dinner on Saturday, October 22, 2022, evening, but he was nonetheless much of the focus of a long-standing political tradition of lobbing light-hearted shots at political rivals during speeches at the event.

The NDP leadership hopeful who was ousted from her chance to compete for British Columbia's top political job says she's ready to take up an invitation to work with the man who will become the next premier.

At 26, Kushagr Sharma is the youngest candidate in his ward vying for a seat on Mississauga's city council. His age is part of the reason he decided to run for public office.

A new podcast co-produced by Canada's National Observer and Canadaland kicks off with the story of Stoney Point, a First Nation in Ontario whose land was stolen by Canada in 1942 to build an army base.

The Ontario Provincial Police warned last winter that support for the "Freedom Convoy" from Canadian political figures was likely to embolden protesters in the streets of downtown Ottawa.

As environmental groups urge the federal government to move quickly with an aggressive cap on emissions from the country's oil and gas sector, the industry itself says such a move could actually slow down the sector's own decarbonization efforts.

Alberta's Opposition New Democrats want the provincial government to end any uncertainty about the future of the province's Rocky Mountains by legislating that no new coal mines will be permitted there.

Quebec Premier François Legault introduced a new, expanded cabinet on Thursday, October 20, 2022, a mix of veteran ministers from his party's first mandate and several newly elected members, including the province's first Indigenous cabinet minister.

The "Freedom Convoy" had gridlocked Canada's capital city for more than two weeks before the "floundering" Ottawa police force approved a detailed plan to handle it, senior police officers have told the public inquiry into the Liberal government's use of the Emergencies Act.

The former chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission says Liberal legislation to remove some mandatory minimum penalties from the Criminal Code doesn't go far enough.

More political tumult in Britain is likely to further stall trade talks with Canada, experts say — but Canada's high commissioner in London is more optimistic.

David Eby became British Columbia's premier-in-waiting on Wednesday, October 19, 2022, when executives of the NDP disqualified his sole party leadership rival, Anjali Appadurai, on the strength of a report into her campaign by the party's chief electoral officer, Elizabeth Cull.