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The White House’s discretionary budget request, released April 9, includes more than US$1.4 billion for environmental justice initiatives. Of that, US$936 million is earmarked for a new Accelerating Environmental and Economic Justice Initiative.

A panel of experts and powerful political luminaries from both Canada and the United States sounded the alarm on Thursday, March 18, 2021, about what they consider an urgent need to get serious about reopening the shared border.

Amy Go says she was saddened by the shootings in Atlanta that left six Asian American women dead, but as an Asian Canadian woman, she wasn't surprised.

Canada's procurement minister says a deal is close to receive Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine doses from the U.S., while the military commander in charge of the rollout here says all adults who wish could be able to get their first shot by July 1.

Canada has indeed asked the United States for help in procuring doses of COVID-19 vaccines, but the White House refused to say on Wednesday, March 1, 2021, whether it has agreed to the request.

“With climate change and sea-level rise impacts, we just need to get away from hardening our shorelines or we’re gonna end up without any beaches,” said Hawaii state Sen. Mike Gabbard. “And what’s Hawaii without any beaches?”

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau waved away suggestions on Monday, March 15, 2021, that Canada is prepared to explore reopening its shared border with the United States any time soon.

Provinces continued to expand their COVID-19 vaccine rollouts on Sunday, March 14, 2021, amid what Canada's chief public health officer described as a recent increase in the number of new cases across the country.

One Capitol Hill lawmaker is ramping up the pressure on President Joe Biden to begin reopening the Canada-U.S. border.

New U.S. guidelines say people fully inoculated against COVID-19 can drop some precautions when gathering with others, but at least two provincial health ministers say existing public health advice holds for now.

The fierce debate over cross-border pipelines is putting more Canadian oil and gas on trains destined for the United States — a country experts fear is ill-equipped for the potential consequences.

Last year's confluence of COVID-19 and Donald Trump exposed the urgent need to reinvent North America, experts across the continent agreed on Tuesday, March 2, 2021, as they explored how best to fortify its trilateral ties.

Neither Canada's prime minister nor the U.S. secretary of state were showing their diplomatic cards on Friday, February 26, 2021, as the two countries discussed the plight of two Canadians languishing behind bars in China.

Canada and the United States will push each other toward more ambitious climate goals, Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said on Wednesday, February 24, 2021, after a meeting with special envoy John Kerry.

Joe Biden granted Justin Trudeau at least one of the items atop his wish list on Tuesday, as they met for the first time as president and prime minister: a pledge to help get two Canadians out of a Chinese prison.