Dozens of epitaphs written over the weekend proclaim the late U.S. Senator John McCain as an American hero, writes Eric Holthaus. But history may miss one of his greatest achievements: His decades-long call for climate action.
Last June, Science Minister Kirsty Duncan hung out the "we're hiring" sign and dangled grants of up to $1 million to try and lure some of the best and brightest international researchers to come to work in Canada.
For years, Megan Boler's research focused on the power of social media as a democratizing force, giving voice to the voiceless and empowering everyday people to come together and participate more meaningfully in how they are governed.
Former first lady Michelle Obama delighted and captivated her Montreal audience on Monday night, highlighting education and gender equality in an hour-long chat.
Donald Trump's first year as president defied description. It was a non-stop deluge of headlines — with one eye-popping story swiftly supplanting another, the sensational often swamping out the significant. Here's what it's been like since last Jan. 20, 2017.
A string of calming comments from U.S. President Donald Trump about NAFTA has proponents of the agreement breathing some relief that his trigger finger is far from the button that would blow up the deal.
The plan opens up 90 percent of U.S. offshore reserves to private companies: from 2019 to 2024, forty-seven new leases are planned for the waters off Alaska, California, the Eastern seaboard and Gulf of Mexico.
Alberta's carbon tax jumped on New Year's Day, but the province's NDP government maintains the tax played a vital role in Alberta's improving economic outlook.
Love him, hate him, debate all you want about him. But with the stroke of a pen on Friday, December 22, 2017, before he hopped onto a helicopter and left Washington for the holidays, Donald Trump cemented one truth about his presidency.
There are dead-end conversations. Then there's the image of Justin Trudeau quibbling about the Canada-U.S. trade deficit with U.S. President Donald Trump, who recently revealed some backroom bickering between the two about which country buys more imports from the other.