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An east-end Montreal school board says that all of the students and staff are safe after being forced to call in emergency crews to respond to a mysterious odour at an elementary school that was reportedly prompted by an incident at a nearby Suncor refinery.

The Bank of Canada and other key financial institutions are moving toward green disclosure practices, but none appear close to recently-recommended requirements for mandatory reporting on climate change risks to the economy that investors are hungry for.

National Observer has learned that the private details of about 45,000 disability support recipients in Ontario were disclosed in an email sent by the Mississauga Ontario Disability Support Program office to about 100 recipients.

Don't blame Jagmeet Singh alone, writes David Bush: the NDP needs a bold leftist platform to succeed.

Canada's newest national political party is laughing all the way to the bank. In the hours since the party became officially registered with Elections Canada, it has raked in more than $300,000.

A pair of experts on global warming have thrown their support behind a new legal motion urging the National Energy Board should consider all climate-related impacts from the proposed Trans Mountain oil pipeline and tanker expansion in its review of the project.

Billionaires in Canada have increased their wealth by $20 billion over the last year, says a new Oxfam report on global inequality. Solutions? Increase public services and tax the rich more.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh was campaigning in the Vancouver region on Jan. 19, supported by some star power as he explained his support for one pipeline project and his opposition to another.

Talks between the federal and provincial governments appear to have sputtered on launching a national electric vehicle strategy.

The Doug Ford government began a 45-day public consultation period (as required by the Environmental Bill of Rights) to improve the "effectiveness" of environmental protections and find a "balanced approach" to boost the environment and economy.

Another bombshell report about President Donald Trump's relationship with Russia is rekindling talk of impeachment in Washington.

In mid-December, more than 28,000 people met in Washington, D.C. to discuss everything earth science-related at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. But amid the dry data and scientific acronyms at a session on solar geoengineering, the science had a patina of existentialist dread that you might not see in a similar forum.

Canada’s largest stock exchange is in the process of joining a voluntary United Nations body that promotes greening financial markets and environmental disclosure.

There are not many truly unknown places left on Earth, places where nobody knows who and what lives there, where the waterways go, or how the ecosystems operate. Eastern Angola is one of those places.

Leaders of six First Nations are urging the Ontario government to "clean up" the bureaucratic process that determines who will build an "urgently needed" high-capacity power transmission line to service northern Ontario.

Yes, there are some crises in Canada, but they are not related to pipelines, you told us in a series of surveys. After many people were buzzing about a new Angus Reid poll that concluded most Canadians believed the country faces a crisis due to a lack of pipelines, we did a few informal surveys of our own on some questions that the pollsters may have forgotten.

First Nations leaders from across British Columbia traveled to Smithers for a historic gathering Wednesday morning, in a powerful show of support for the Wet'suwet'en Nation and all those standing up to defend Indigenous governance systems, human rights, and the well-being of lands and waters for all people in generations to come. 

The Ontario government's plan to end mandatory fee remittance for college and university students would severely weaken, if not kill, student unions, clubs, associations, services and campus media like radio or the campus press, writes columnist Nora Loreto.

For some people, the awakening comes in science class.

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.