Politics

The Biden administration is planning to sell oil and gas leases on huge tracts of public land in the U.S. West, despite the Interior Department's conclusion that doing so could cost society billions of dollars in climate change impacts, according to government documents.

Manitoba's new premier was sworn into office on Tuesday, November 2, 2021, while her opponent challenged her leadership victory in court.

Late Monday, over 100 countries representing 85 per cent of the world’s forests pledged to reverse deforestation and land degradation by 2030, with a dozen countries putting billions of dollars on the table to back the effort.

Wang Yuetang’s sneakers sink into the mud of what was once his thriving corn and peanut farm as he surveys the damage done by an unstable climate.

A Quebec environmental group attempting to block a road construction project south of Montreal that it says would damage the habitat of an endangered frog said it’s pleased with a recent court order.

The Biden administration is launching a wide-ranging plan to reduce methane emissions, targeting a potent greenhouse gas that contributes significantly to global warming and packs a stronger short-term punch than even carbon dioxide.

Alberta politicians are warning the federal Liberal government that caps on greenhouse gas emissions from oil and gas will have to be set in consultation with the province.

President Joe Biden is joining other world leaders in highlighting the importance of preserving forests as a force against global warming, but at home a coal-state U.S. senator is again threatening Biden's landmark climate legislation at home.

British Columbia is applying to the federal government to remove criminal penalties for possession of small amounts of illicit drugs in an effort to help more people get care in a health crisis that has claimed 7,700 lives over five years.

Months before triggering the vote, the federal agency in charge of running elections commissioned its first stand-alone survey into the level of trust Canadians had in the electoral process.

Speaking from COP26 in Glasgow, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau lamented Lytton, the British Columbia town reduced to ash this summer, warning other countries it could happen anywhere.

Leaders of the world's biggest economies on Saturday, October 30, 2021, endorsed a global minimum tax on corporations, a linchpin of new international tax rules aimed at blunting the edge of fiscal paradises amid skyrocketing profits of some multinational businesses.

The victory climate activists are declaring in Quebec could easily prove to be pyrrhic, given the obvious risk of blowback in Alberta — and potentially in Ottawa, says columnist Max Fawcett.

President Joe Biden heads to a United Nations climate conference on Monday, November 1, 2021, energized by a new legislative framework that, if enacted, would be the largest action ever taken by the United States to address climate change.

Leaders of the world’s biggest economies made a compromise commitment on Sunday, October 31, 2021 to reach carbon neutrality “by or around mid-century” as they wrapped up a two-day summit that was laying the groundwork for the U.N. climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland.