Politics

As the federal government moves to tighten regulations on methane emissions, new assessments suggest the amount of the potent greenhouse gas escaping into the atmosphere has been significantly underestimated.

Under threat of a general strike, the Ontario government walked back a controversial law last week. What else could a general strike accomplish?

In the space of nine days, Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government drew up, imposed and promised to withdraw a law that invoked the Charter of Rights and Freedoms’ notwithstanding clause to block any opposition to its enforced four-year pay offer to Canadian Union of Public Employees members.

The Ford government tried to legislate away Ontario workers’ bargaining rights last week. Instead, it likely needs to sweeten the deal it’s proposing to emboldened education workers.

Canada's deputy prime minister says she is looking forward to working with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, even though the provincial politician has taken a combative tone toward the federal government.

RCMP appeared caught off guard by protesters blockading a Canada-U.S. border crossing last winter despite Alberta's government being warned ahead of time, the mayor of Coutts, Alta., testified at a public inquiry on Wednesday, November 9, 2022.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will miss Friday's, November 11, 2022, national Remembrance Day ceremony in Ottawa to attend a summit in Cambodia involving countries from across Southeast Asia.

Candidates vying to helm the federal Green party offered their visions for its future and their explanations for its disarray during a leadership debate on Wednesday, November 9, 2022, night.

Canada is announcing millions of dollars in new climate finance for developing countries. But advocates warn symbolic donations are no replacement for the new financial tools delegates are negotiating at COP27.

Alberta's new energy minister has promised to maintain an order protecting the Rocky Mountains in the province from coal development, for now.

The United Nations is cracking down on greenwashing. Former environment minister Catherine McKenna is leading the charge.

Before Pope Francis's arrival in Canada last July, federal officials flagged concerns about the level of consultation done with a First Nations community that was set to host him.

The next two months might be the busiest of Catherine Stewart’s life. Here's what Canada's climate change ambassador will be doing at the United Nations' COP27 climate conference in Egypt and how she'll set the stage for Montreal's massive biodiversity conference in December.

The fall economic statement included the first concrete steps to future-proof Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s key climate legacy: carbon pricing.

Amnesty International's head warned that the proceedings of COP27 in Egypt could be stained by the death of one of the country's leading rights activists from a hunger and water strike in prison if Egyptian authorities do not release him within days.