Politics

In Episode 4 of The Road, Isaac Phan Nay explores how Ontario’s consultation of First Nations clashes with international law on the rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Danielle Smith has long claimed to be a friend of the LGBTQ community. Her government's raft of new policies on trans issues suggest otherwise and raise an important question: Who wouldn't she betray to stay on Take Back Alberta's good side?

Foreign nationals and companies will be banned from buying residential properties in Canada for an additional two years, the federal finance minister said on Sunday, the latest in a raft of measures aimed at addressing housing affordability concerns that have dogged the governing Liberals for months.

Smith's office says the new space is meant to expand the province's presence in the nation's capital and to amplify Alberta's voice on the national stage.

When Ellen Rice-Hogan discovered that someone had bought a mining claim under her farm, she was shocked.

The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations Cindy Woodhouse is trying to make inroads with Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, hoping to forestall the tensions and angst that marked the party's last time in power.

Investors and would-be suppliers need incentives to start churning out the greener oil, industry groups say. They're hoping Ottawa can match programs in the U.S. and ultimately help cut airplane pollution, which accounts for about two per cent of global carbon dioxide emissions.

A commission of inquiry into foreign interference will hear from Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc today, as it looks for ways to make as much information public as possible.

The federal government is lashing out at the U.S. Commerce Department over plans to raise duties on Canadian softwood lumber.

A provincial court justice of the peace has upheld the Quebec government's imposition of curfews during the COVID-19 pandemic, finding several people guilty of breaking the health order during a protest.

According to new analyses Thursday, the Parliamentary Budget Office estimates the federal government will provide over $11 billion to companies investing in carbon capture and hydrogen technologies over the coming years, representing at least $1 billion more than previously expected.

The federal government is spending another $362 million to help provinces and cities find housing for asylum seekers — but Ontario says it's nowhere near enough.

In a press release, the regulator says it found that approving the application with four conditions is in the public interest, based on new inspection commitments and demonstration of quality management processes from Trans Mountain. 

In recent years, Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley has emerged on the world scene as a fierce champion of global financial reform to avert the worst impacts of the climate crisis. In an interview with Canada's National Observer, she unpacks what she hopes to see unfold in forthcoming negotiations.

The peatlands in the Ring of Fire mining region alone store about two billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent of greenhouse gases.