National Observer

It’s willful desensitization: the sheer amount of tragedy in the world forces our inundated culture to select exactly what we want to be the target of our outrage.

If we want to solve climate change, there's no other option.

Montreal's city council unanimously adopted a motion on Monday, August 20, 2018, calling for the federal government to ban the possession of handguns and so-called assault weapons across the country except for members of security forces and other authorities mandated to posses firearms.

Rising arctic temperatures mean we face a future of ‘extreme extremes’ where sunny days become heatwaves and rain becomes floods, study says.

A lively crowd at Concordia University booed and whistled at François Legault, leader of Quebec’s right-leaning Coalition Avenir Québec, for detailing a pledge that would require new immigrants to Quebec to pass a French test within three years of arrival in order to not "find themselves in an illegal situation."

As one of the three founders of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, I have a keen interest in preventing environmental degradation, because I know that human health —my over-riding professional focus — is entirely dependent on healthy ecosystems. 

A recent union-sponsored survey suggests an overwhelming majority of federal government auditors believe Canada's tax system unfairly favours the wealthy over average Canadians.

A new face of summer is emerging, writes Julia Pope. Replacing the iconic images of people camping and hiking are images of smoke and flames, and family picnics held against a backdrop of gray skies full of falling ash.

Melissa Stevenson was just starting her career 18 years ago when a summer position at the Indigenous Family Centre in Winnipeg connected her to a youngster named Tina Fontaine.

"Wildfire smoke is so thick in Prince George, it looks like night, after the sun has risen." That's a quote from Global News. Evacuations, damaged health, Beijing-like fog, nightmarish infernos. Welcome to the new normal.

Wildfires and smoke hazards in British Columbia are explained in this video by Michael Ruffolo.

Four people were arrested at the Kinder Morgan Westridge Marine Terminal in Burnaby on Tuesday morning while protesting the proposed Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion.

The act that will regulate Hydro One compensation has been proclaimed, Premier Doug Ford said on Wednesday, one that will regulate board compensation and require cabinet approval for any changes.

If he's elected and carries out his plans to cancel the Apuiat project, CAQ Leader François Legault would be borrowing a page from Ontario Premier Doug Ford, who cancelled a multimillion dollar wind project and hundreds of other green energy deals, within days of forming a new government in June.

National Observer joins The Boston Globe and some 350 American newspapers publishing editorials today denouncing Trump's dangerous and demeaning war on the news media.

While nearly all of the energy used in buildings is dedicated to basic services like indoor heating, cooling and lighting, researchers say building codes aren’t very good at taking into account how occupants actually use those services day to day.

“We have 25 MPs, 25 MPPs and we’re going to have 25 councillors,” Ontario Premier Doug Ford said in the legislature on Tuesday, emphasising again how Bill 5, also named the Better Local Government Act, is set to align the the number of wards in Toronto with the number of provincial and federal electoral districts.

The Ontario legislature adjourned for the summer on Tuesday, delaying plans to formalize its signature cap and trade cancellation bill.

Anti-poverty advocate and Order of Canada recipient Jean Swanson was defiant as she prepared for jail. She's serving a sentence after violating a court injunction while protesting the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project in Burnaby, B.C.

Obed's re-election follows the re-election July 31 of Perry Bellegarde as Assembly of First Nations national chief.