Politics

A spill of surface runoff from a containment pond at Suncor Energy’s Fort Hills oilsands site may have spanned more than a year, the Alberta Energy Regulator has announced.

As climate-driven deaths rise, a report finds only 23 per cent of countries use climate data to inform their public health strategies.

Pierre Poilievre may have a double-digit lead in the polls, but his preposterously petulant behaviour last week showed he's still his own biggest enemy — and why that lead could easily evaporate in the months to come.

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation claims it's dedicated to "lower taxes, less waste and accountable government." So why does that sense of dedication seem to lapse any time it's a conservative government wasting taxpayer dollars?

A federal committee is forcing the president of the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) to testify for a second time on the aftermath of huge tailings pond leaks at Imperial Oil's Kearl facility earlier this year.

Formal talks are expected to begin today between Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and two top heads of the European Union.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau kicked off a two-day summit with the top two heads of the European Union on Thursday, Nov. 23, 2023, night in a small brewpub on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean in Newfoundland and Labrador's capital city of St. John's.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre released a blueprint for how he would respond to an uptick in hate crimes on Thursday, Nov. 23, 2023, while the Liberals accused him of being irresponsible for prematurely labelling an explosion at a Canada-U.S. border checkpoint a "terrorist attack" the day before.

A British Columbia cabinet minister says she mistakenly dropped a memo to herself describing a "big and shiny" affordability measure that mysteriously ended up in the hands of the Opposition BC United party.

Alberta's energy regulator says it won't reconsider approvals for Suncor to expand an oilsands mine into a wetland once considered for environmental protection.

“The longer that we delay, the harder it will be to bring this into force,” British Columbia MP Patrick Weiler told Canada’s National Observer in a phone interview.

Climate change is becoming a hot-button political issue in British Columbia with opposition parties launching election-style attacks on the New Democrat government's clean climate policies.

The media isn't responsible for the Trudeau Liberals' recent tumble in the polls. But as a recent story about the prime minister's schedule shows, they're often helping dumb down a political discourse that could stand to get a whole lot smarter.

“Given the current climate politically, I'm really surprised they didn't say: We're going to come through with more money for eco-energy retrofits,” Green Party Leader Elizabeth May told Canada’s National Observer in an interview at Parliament Hill.

India restored electronic visa services for Canadian nationals, an Indian foreign ministry official said on Wednesday, two months after Canada alleged the South Asian nation was involved in the assassination of a Sikh separatist in Canada.