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Municipalities have the power to help pollinator-friendly gardens flourish — but first they need to nix restrictive bylaws, environmental groups say.

Suncor Energy Inc. filed a disclosure document last year laying out what would happen if extreme weather were to force a 10-day shutdown of its massive Base Plant oilsands mine in northern Alberta.

The mother of a boy who died a year ago in a Nova Scotia flood says her grief returns daily, along with frustration over what she considers the province's slow pace in reforming its preparations for climate disasters.

Melting of ice is slowing planet’s rotation and could disrupt internet traffic, financial transactions and GPS

Energy infrastructure is an attractive target for cyberattacks but the experts needed to protect this critical infrastructure are in short supply, according to the federal government.

Our attitudes about enduring extreme heat have to evolve.

Enbridge Gas is starting construction of its $358-million natural gas pipeline in southwestern Ontario, which critics say “doesn’t even make economic sense” given the need to transition away from fossil fuels. 

Over 250 wildfires are burning in British Columbia as much of the province continues to bake under a heat wave that is expected to last into next week.

A prominent Alberta utility is seeking to delay a hearing on appropriate remedies for gas and electricity rates the province's utilities regulator says were neither reasonable nor justified.

Cultural burning is the use of controlled fire to generate new growth and prevent large, destructive wildfires. Long used by Indigenous people throughout what is now B.C. and other parts of Canada, the practice was criminalized in 1874. However, as Canada suffers record-breaking wildfires, a growing number of Indigenous people and advocates are calling for those restrictions to be removed.

Nearly $90 million in federal funding for a slew of nature conservation projects intended to reverse Canada’s biodiversity loss and protect more land and waters was announced Thursday.

The province says it’s moving toward an owner-operator system for quota and licenses as part of the Coastal Marine Strategy unveiled last week.

All but one of the forests included in this purchase announcement do not contain old-growth trees. Instead, seven of the eight purchased properties contain what’s called “recruitment” old-growth — that is, forests that have been logged.

Experts and advocates say a combination of climate change, outdated infrastructure and policy gaps are to blame for the severe flooding that shut down roads, critical buildings and services. 

In 2021, the Vancouver-based Drug User Liberation Front approached Health Canada with a proposal.