National Observer

A Crown attorney has asked a Federal Court judge to dismiss a case raised by an employee at Canada's pipeline regulator, who alleges that someone tampered with his written test for a new job at a different department.

We noticed an Angus Reid poll seemed to be missing a few key questions about issues such as climate change, environmental liabilities and the clean economy, so we thought we'd help them out and do an online poll of our own.

"It's a complex world so people do anything and everything to save themselves," Mario Calla, executive director of the immigrant services agency COSTI, told reporters after Rahaf Mohammed made her last public statement. "Social media may now be a tool for them," he said. "It depends on whether or not it grabs the attention of the right people."

An employee at the National Energy Board who alleges he was a victim of workplace violence has taken the federal government to court, accusing officials of tampering with an exam he wrote when he applied for another public service job.

Is a Green New Deal in Canada a way out through the climate catastrophe? Syed Hassan examines how the proposal that's hot among U.S. Democrats might be embraced in Canada.

An Ottawa-area energy cooperative has revived two of the 758 energy contracts that Ontario Premier Doug Ford cancelled days after taking office — contracts that will help two district schools become self-sustainable in energy production and consumption.

Climate change could be kept in check if a phaseout of all fossil fuel infrastructure were to begin immediately, according to research.

Scientist Brad Lister returned to Puerto Rican rainforest after 35 years to find 98 per cent of ground insects had vanished

As the Trudeau government moves forward with its plans to price carbon pollution, a new report from the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers argues the Liberals should be focusing their efforts on getting fossil fuels to emerging economies.

Doug Ford’s Ontario government faces legal challenges on two fronts this week, with environmental groups wanting the cancellation of the province’s climate change strategy deemed illegal and the elementary teachers’ union and others targeting its regression to a 1998 sex-education curriculum.

Canada's acceptance of a Saudi Arabian teenager seeking asylum is sparking debate within that country about loosening laws restricting women's freedom, but also a backlash that could initially repress more women, analysts say.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shuffled his cabinet Monday, replacing his justice minister for the first time, as the government gears up for a federal election later this year.

Quebec bashing is low-hanging fruit for Jason Kenney, leader of the United Conservative Party in Alberta. The attacks will ramp up as the Alberta election draws closer, Nora Loreto predicts in an opinion column.

Health Canada has rejected allegations that a key ingredient in a popular pesticide is a cancer risk to humans based on typical use.

Canada's arms-length oil and gas industry regulator called for tougher marine monitoring and protections standards if the government wants to proceed with the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. 

The Dzawada’enuxw First Nation filed an 'Aboriginal rights' lawsuit against the government of Canada, challenging the federal permits that allow Atlantic farmed salmon farms in their traditional territories. Chiefs, artists and community members traveled to Vancouver Thursday for a press conference and art exhibit at night to kick off the Nation's legal action.

“It would’ve been very different if I had been premier of Ontario,” Patrick Brown told National Observer in an interview. “I would have been a conservative partner with the federal government, trying to combat climate change.”

As the federal and provincial governments gear up for a tense legal and political battle over climate change, Ottawa announced that it has selected an Ontario company as the first recipient of funds under its climate plan. 

As climate change marches forward, it will exact a mounting, tangible toll on our collective mental health and productivity.

Brison, the president of the Treasury Board, says he will not seek re-election.