The fight to phase out smoking was a public policy success, and two government actions in particular are worth emulating when it comes reducing carbon emissions, writes Eric Campbell.

Rocket launches are a breathtaking culmination of human ingenuity as they propel us into the future, but there is a growing concern that not enough research has been done on their effect on the enviro...

The last week has been a bad one for the Ontario premier. Polls suggest his recent handling of the pandemic has sapped his support.

English school boards in Quebec started hearing from prospective teachers hoping for a job shortly after this week's court decision on the province's religious symbols law. But those hopes were undone...

Within two weeks, tree planters from Quebec and Ontario are expected to arrive in B.C. to help in a major provincial reforestation efforts.

Students and faculty are in despair at the loss of the four-year music program at Laurentian University, with department chair Yoko Hirota saying it took more than 20 years to build, and students and ...

The 16 Alberta MLAs who argued against tighter COVID-19 restrictions in an open letter recently have sparked debate and frustration in some of the communities they represent over just whose views ar...

A group of activists say they have no intention of ending their anti-logging blockades on Vancouver Island, despite a court injunction and opposition from the political leadership of the Pacheedaht Fi...

An influential Canadian doctor and top adviser to the World Health Organization has come under fire for controversial comments downplaying the risk of airborne spread of the coronavirus and claiming N...

The Alberta government is delaying plans to vaccinate workers at Cargill's meatpacking plant in High River — a move doctors say is likely to erode the already shaky trust with a workforce devastated...

The Trudeau government is expected to announce a new target for greenhouse gas emissions — at least a 40 per cent reduction from 2005 levels by 2030.

Warren Montgomery died Tuesday morning after contracting coronavirus variant.

The Canadian Alliance of Physiotherapy Regulators has cancelled all of its clinical exams scheduled for 2021. It's the fourth time exams have been cancelled since March 2020, leaving new graduates in ...

The championship was called off a day before participating countries were to set to arrive and begin quarantine. Players were set to come from across Canada, the U.S., Japan and Europe. ...

Earlier this month, the Ottawa Police Service said it found the officers involved not criminally responsible for Abraham Natanine's death in Clyde River.

After a nearby Easter weekend event turned into a COVID-19 superspreader, the mayor of Maple Creek, Sask., says the town has alerted the RCMP of a noted Canadian anti-masker's planned rally in the com...

Former minister of Public Safety Ralph Goodale has been appointed Canada's new high commissioner in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) announ...

A legal battle that has pitted Canada's largest private ranch against a small recreation club in British Columbia has exposed the gaps in provincial legislation when it comes to access to public land...

The Bank of Canada opted to keep its benchmark interest rate steady at its record-low level Wednesday even as it revised its growth estimates up significantly.

Health officials in Quebec have confirmed a first case of B1617, the coronavirus variant first detected in India.