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Environmental and Indigenous groups asked Minnesota regulators on Tuesday, September 25, 2018, to reconsider their approval of Enbridge Energy's plans to replace its aging Line 3 crude oil pipeline across northern Minnesota.

A former U.S. ambassador to Canada is taking the battle for this year's midterm elections north of the border, calling on more than 600,000 Americans living in this country to register for a vote that is gearing up to be a referendum on Republican Donald Trump's presidency.

Washington's Department of Ecology wants the Canadian government to fix what it calls "deficiencies in critical areas" of its spill response plan for a spur of the Trans Mountain pipeline that runs through the state.

Canada's high-level United Nations charm offensive is back underway in New York City.

"Stopping us from protecting our people, our jobs and economy or our planet is like trying to stop a mother from protecting her child," said State Attorney General Xavier Becerra.

The prominent founder of a Newfoundland organization for clergy abuse survivors has written a letter to Pope Francis, saying the Vatican "owes God an apology" for mismanagement of abuse allegations.

When she first told a U.S. lawmaker her harrowing allegation of a 1982 high-school sexual assault at the hands of a prep-school kid now poised to become one of America's most powerful judges, she was just an anonymous psychology professor in California — and wanted to stay that way.

If you want a straw with your drink or a soda with a kids' meal at a California restaurant, you'll need to ask for them starting next year.

The United States has backed away from its contentious demands for lucrative procurement projects in the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement, The Canadian Press has learned.

Early one Sunday morning in August, as the sun climbs to a blaze in the aqua sky, an organic market unfolds across the park Placita Roosevelt in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Vendors and farmers from all over the island gather to share produce, expertise, and services.

Beliefs about climate change are increasingly determined by politics, not science. It’s a question of identity: Team donkey believes in stopping climate change, and team elephant doesn’t.

Thirteen months is an "absolutely normal" time frame for a task as complex as modernizing North American trade, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Wednesday, September 19, 2018, as she notched another day on the road towards a new NAFTA deal with the United States and Mexico.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford vowed to stand up for the province's farmers during a briefing on NAFTA talks in Washington this week, saying on Tuesday, September 18, 2018, that any version of the trade pact had to protect the agricultural sector.

Decked out in colourful striped Uncle Sam hats and waving "register to vote" banners, a group of progressive American expats rallied across from Trump International Hotel in Vancouver on Monday, urging fellow Americans in Canada to register to vote in the upcoming midterm election.

Chrystia Freeland was not happy.