Politics

An extremely hot, dry summer that shrank reservoirs and sparked forest fires is now threatening the heartiest of Spain's staple crops: the olives that make the European country the world's leading producer and exporter of the tiny green fruits that are pressed into golden oil.

“We won. They backed down,” Sharron Flynn-Bennett, a union organizer and special education worker in the Toronto Catholic District School Board, said outside Queen’s Park on Monday. 

“We must acknowledge a harsh truth: there is no adapting to a growing number of catastrophic events causing enormous suffering around the world,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres says to delegates as COP27 begins in Egypt.

Are they here to serve and protect the public, or just the portions of it that share their ideological convictions and partisan beliefs? asks columnist Max Fawcett.

​​​​​​​Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is getting tough on inflation even as the economy teeters on the brink of a recession, writes reporter and researcher Edward Ngai.

Oil and gas companies that pushed the federal government for more funding for carbon capture technology will be sorely disappointed by the fall economic statement.

To howls from opposition critics and growing outcry from those sympathetic to the education workers’ plight, the Ford government got its anti-strike law on the books ahead of a (now illegal) picket by tens of thousands of CUPE staff that will close many of the province’s schools starting Friday.

After a national security review, Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne is ordering three Chinese resource companies to sell their interests in Canadian critical mineral firms.

With oil and gas companies under increased scrutiny for how they choose to use their record-breaking profits in 2022, the chief executive of Cenovus Energy took aim at critics by highlighting the billions of dollars the industry is expected to contribute in taxes and royalties this year.

Despite other world leaders going, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is sitting out of the UN climate conference in Egypt.

If Doug Ford and François Legault have their way, Canada may not have a Charter worth defending for much longer, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Canada’s finance minister will present a fiscal look-ahead Thursday as Canadians grapple with high inflation and an impending recession.

The 14 Quebec politicians who refused to swear an oath to the King after the Oct. 3 election must do so or risk expulsion from the legislature, the outgoing Speaker said on Tuesday, November 1, 2022.

Ontario government lawyers argued on Tuesday, November 1, 2022 there would be "irreparable harm" to the rule of law if Premier Doug Ford and a top minister were compelled to testify at a federal inquiry after citing parliamentary privilege in trying to avoid doing so.

Prominent gun-control groups are urging MPs to legislatively enshrine a comprehensive ban on firearms the government outlawed using regulatory orders more than two years ago.