National Observer

National Observer goes inside the Ontario Liberal caucus and finds a group of seven MPPs still grappling with election results, and trying to find a foothold for themselves at Queen's Park.

The Ontario Conservative government is musing about introducing its own plan to make polluters pay, just as it is rejecting the federal government's efforts to do the same thing,

In her speech, Tzeporah Berman said striking a balance is already complex but has been made worse by public discourse suffused with hate and polarized ideologies on both sides. Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says anti-pipeline opponents aren't realistic.

Standing side-by-side with his long-time colleague, Sidney Ribaux mischievously threw a light jab at a gaggle of journalists and TV cameras deployed for a Friday morning news conference. He didn't expect to see so much interest for a briefing about pesticides, he said with a smile.

Scientists have laid out the facts. The world must come together now.

Emerging Indigenous directors Asia Youngman and Trevor Mack premiered their short documentary 'In the Valley of Wild Horses' at the Vancouver International Film Festival. Their showings sold-out, highlighting an increased interest in community-based story-telling.

A pair of Ray-Ban sunglasses. A limited edition, painted leather clutch. Beauty products, glittering jewelry, shoes, luggage, children's clothing, sporting accessories.

For Canadians apprehensive about U.S. milk because of the new trade agreement, writer Jessica Scott-Reid suggests looking at it as an opportunity to take a closer look at all dairy products, to ask not only 'Where does this come from?' but ‘How safe and ethical is our own supply?’

Nadia Murad, a Yazidi woman from Iraq who was forced into sexual slavery by the Islamic State, won the Nobel Peace Prize along with Congolese gynecologist and surgeon Denis Mukwege for "their efforts to end use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict."

It was a calm and peaceful night off the coast of northern British Columbia when disaster struck.

Statistics Canada has been offering a “quid pro quo” to cannabis retailers across the country: give us your sales data, and we won’t pester you with surveys.

In 12 years teaching high school students in Montreal, the only comments Furheen Ahmed has received about her hijab are compliments on its colour or pattern, and occasional questions about why she wears the headscarf or what to call it. She is "disheartened, frustrated and confused" by the new Quebec government's plan to ban her from wearing it.

Doctors in Montreal will soon be writing prescriptions that send patients to the art gallery instead of the pharmacy under a partnership with the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

Delegations from Canada and Quebec arrived in Armenia on Wednesday, October 10, 2018, ahead of the summit of la Francophonie, intent on putting the controversy over the election of a secretary general behind them.

Ontario will soon allow turban-wearing Sikhs to ride motorcycles without helmets, joining three other provinces in providing the exemption.

Equality, freedom and independence are words that inspired humanity's great social movements. Are there similar powerful words for today's environmental movement? Graham Saul interviewed 116 leading environmentalists and examines his findings here.

If recent regressive provincial climate change policies play out, we could be swiftly heading in the wrong direction as provincial and territorial governments together can do more than the federal government to protect and restore habitat in a way that fights climate change.

Carbon pollution would have to be cut by 45 per cent by 2030 – compared with a 20 per cent cut under the 2C pathway – and come down to zero by 2050, compared with 2075 for 2C. This would require carbon prices that are three to four times higher than for a 2C target. But the costs of doing nothing would be far higher.

Many Quebecers worry that the newly-elected Quebec government's policies will affect social cohesion, paint immigrants as an unwanted and undesirable threat, and marginalize some people.