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Green Leader Elizabeth May hopes to use whatever influence her three-member caucus has to ensure bolder climate action, a pharmacare plan and a promise of lower cellphone rates make their way into the next throne speech.

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau met teenaged Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg in Montreal on Friday, September 27, 2019, in advance of the cross-country marches that are expected to dominate the federal election campaign.

Climate change will dominate the federal election campaign today, Friday 27, 2019, with most of the leaders joining marches demanding cuts to greenhouse-gas emissions.

Two leading Canadian activists say voters need to think about climate change as if we are a country at war against greenhouse-gas emissions.

Several hundred Canadian millennials planned to rally in at least 30 cities across the country on Wednesday, July 17, 2019, demanding a federal leaders' debate on climate change.

The province of Quebec offers the federal New Democrats fertile ground, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said on Tuesday, July 16, 2019, despite private hand-wringing about his party's state ahead of the upcoming election campaign.

A day after Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer accused the Liberals of plotting to levy a "secret fuel tax" on families, seniors and farmers, the Liberals volleyed back with allegations the Tories have nothing but smears to offer in place of a real climate-change plan.

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is promising to scrap new standards that will force cleaner-burning fuels, in addition to eliminating the federal price on carbon if his party wins the fall federal election.

In a battle to see who can prove they care more about the environment, both the Liberals and the federal New Democrats are pushing motions this week to declare climate change a national emergency.

Federal rebates to encourage Canadians to buy electric cars take effect today, May 1, 2019.

Nearly a third of Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions come from structures we build: houses, commercial buildings and infrastructure. The author examines the way those emissions are measured and how the practice should be improved.

Environment Commissioner Julie Gelfand says Canada is not doing enough to combat climate change.

Premier Doug Ford's government has just proposed climate change rules that, if adopted, would likely require industrial facilities in Ontario to pay a carbon tax to meet new standards. The long-awaited "made-in-Ontario" climate plan proposes a new industrial performance standard that would limit the growth in pollution, "rather than an absolute cap on emissions for the province."

Canada and the United Kingdom are hosting a "coal-free day" at the United Nations climate talks in Katowice, Poland, a city built on coal mining.

A new report from one of the world's most prestigious medical journals says Canada's failure to cut greenhouse-gas emissions isn't just killing the planet, it's killing Canadians.