Politics

Federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said on Thursday, May 26, 2022, he's "very optimistic" this week's meeting of G7 climate and energy ministers will produce a consensus to gradually phase out the use of coal.

The United States and Germany signed an agreement on Friday, May 27, 2022, to deepen their cooperation on shifting from fossil fuels to renewable energy in an effort to rein in climate change.

Officials from the Group of Seven wealthy nations announced on Friday, May 27, 2022, that they will aim to largely end greenhouse gas emissions from their power sectors by 2035, making it highly unlikely that those countries will burn coal for electricity beyond that date.

Canada isn’t in any danger of embracing Hungarian-style fascism, but the manipulation of the media could easily serve as an inspiration for our conservatives, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

The federal government will join a legal challenge to Quebec's religious symbols law if it reaches the country's highest court, Justice Minister David Lametti said on Wednesday, May 25, 2022.

Several women's groups are imploring the federal Liberals to abandon the idea of creating a new regime for an endangered person to seek a court order to remove firearms from a stalker or abuser.

The British foreign secretary has often been mocked for her preoccupation with cheese. It started eight years ago when Liz Truss expressed outrage in a speech to her party’s annual conference.

Now that the second official debate of the race is out of the way, Conservative leadership hopefuls will turn their attention to signing up as many supporters as they can before a fast-approaching deadline.

Candidates competing to lead the federal Conservatives traded barbs over contentious language laws, inflation and the trucker convoy in the race's only French-language debate on Wednesday, May 25, 2022, night, with Pierre Poilievre finding himself on the defensive through parts of the evening.

Emergency weather alerts that are broadcast over the mobile network should be improved to make sure they are getting to the right people at the right time, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said on Wednesday, May 25, 2022.

A southern Alberta town has become what it says is the first municipality to endorse a community−developed policy that calls for a permanentban on new coal exploration and development in the Rocky Mountains.

Dianne Saxe and the hundreds of mostly young Green Party of Ontario volunteers working on her campaign are hoping to add to the party's lone seat at Queen's Park, with a focus on Toronto’s student-rich University-Rosedale riding.

The streets of downtown Ottawa are no longer blocked with trucks and peppered with hate symbols, but residents are not ready to rest while the extreme rhetoric of the so-called “freedom convoy” permeates Canadian politics and society.

Halfway between last year’s UN climate conference and this year’s meeting in Egypt, Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault is trying to thread the needle between Canada’s track record as the top fossil fuel financier in the G7 and its role delivering cash promised to developing countries for their energy transition.

It's been a difficult year for many since the discovery of unmarked graves at residential schools and those expressing anger are justified in doing so, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said.