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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada is on track to achieve its 2030 climate goal, adding: "We have already seen a bending of the curve of emissions."

When Bria Hamilton was a 19-year-old student at York University, a fire started in the basement kitchen of the three-storey townhouse she shared with nine other people.

The rate of warming in the top two kilometres has doubled from levels in the 1960s, a review finds.

The proposed changes to the Environment Act would create a pricing system based on greenhouse gas output, Environment Minister Tim Halman told reporters, adding that the new plan would also include targets and performance standards to be set out in regulations.

Several media reports say the officer was killed while assisting a bylaw officer at a homeless camp. 

Ottawa mayor Jim Watson said he was impatient with the amount of time it took to get more police officers sent to the city to quell the protests. 

Alberta’s Opposition NDP says Premier Danielle Smith needs to apologize for her remarks on the Russia-Ukraine war.

Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon is insisting he can take office without swearing an oath to the King — even if the secretary general of the legislature has told him otherwise.

Canada is sanctioning 34 individuals and a television network in Russia that the federal government considers "propaganda agents," Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly announced on Monday, October 17, 2022.

Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says she did not mean to offend anyone after saying last week that Africans must be "prepared to die for their democracy," and hinted that Canada might boost aid for the continent.

The death toll from floods in Nigeria this year has increased to 603 as local authorities race to get relief items to hundreds of thousands being evacuated from their submerged homes.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has ordered preparations for all of the country's three remaining nuclear reactors to continue operating until mid-April. The move marks another hiccup in the country's long-running plan to end the use of atomic energy.

Australian and Singaporean leaders announced on Tuesday, October 18, 2022, what they described as a world-first agreement to cooperate in transitioning their economies to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions.

A new research report says federal cybersecurity legislation is so flawed it would allow authoritarian governments around the world to justify their own repressive laws.

An analysis suggests Canada is using questionable methods to dramatically underestimate greenhouse gas emissions from the forestry industry, which it says equal those from Alberta's oilsands in some years.