National Observer

Alberta still doesn’t have regulations in place to determine how to operate its much-vaunted “hard cap” on oilsands emissions, first announced in late 2015.

A parliamentary committee sided this week with the commissioner’s recommendation that political parties should be brought under federal privacy laws. Despite this, the proposal failed to make it into the government’s elections reform bill which received royal assent on Thursday.

The B.C. government, First Nations and industry have come together to create a plan to shut down 10 fish farms in the Broughton Archipelago in the next three years. The move aims to protect wild salmon from parasites as they migrate.

The Ontario government of Doug Ford – which has already cancelled curriculum-writing sessions intended to increase Indigenous content – is now coming after cultural grants.

An influx of artificial intelligence research facilities is gentrifying an old textile industry neighbourhood in Montreal. While jobs are booming, what about affordability for longtime residents?

A string of politicians in Ontario and beyond have expressed outrage at the latest cut to social services from Doug Ford's Progressive Conservative government after National Observer reported it was retroactively pulling back funds from the Ontario College of Midwives on Thursday. Meantime, in another part of the country, Alberta's NDP government has announced an expansion of services.

Doug Ford's government has revoked existing funding for the College of Midwives of Ontario, as well as all future funding for the regulatory body that oversees over 900 midwives in the province and has received government support for 25 years.

The Toronto Sun committed a “serious breach of journalistic standards” for falsely reporting that refugees were slaughtering goats at a Scarborough hotel, said a self-regulating Canadian press council in a scathing statement released on Thursday night.

Just in case the federal Liberals were in danger of forgetting what Alberta Premier Rachel Notley wants for Christmas this year, she sent them a reminder outside their annual holiday party in Ottawa this week.

Three members of the Secwepemc First Nation were arrested in Kamloops on Monday as they sought to disrupt closed-door talks they were excluded from about the Trans Mountain pipeline taking place between government officials and other Indigenous groups.

Opposition politicians pounced on a call from Ontario’s interim top cop for an independent investigation into the executive hiring process at the force on Wednesday, as Premier Doug Ford ducked questions over his role in the appointment of a family friend as new commissioner.

Here are ten of the most compelling arguments and insinuations contained in the letter from Ontario's interim top cop to the province's ombudsman calling for an investigation into possible political interference in the process to replace him.

Despite decades of global climate negotiations, CO2 levels are rocketing upwards at record pace.

The interim commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police is asking the province's ombudsman to investigate the appointment of Premier Doug Ford's family friend to the force's top job.

A leaked audio recording appears to show that a contender for the leadership of Alberta's newly-formed United Conservative Party was pushed into running to foil the efforts of a top rival to eventual contest winner Jason Kenney. 

The House of Commons ethics committee demanded Tuesday that right-wing group Ontario Proud hand over information about its out-of-province funding and reveal details about the telemarketing firm it used to blast out millions of texts and phone calls during the last provincial campaign.

Construction of a new University of Montreal science campus in one of Canada's poorest neighbourhoods is putting a squeeze on housing as 10,000 students and workers are expected to flood the area.

Alberta is asking for private companies to put forward expressions of interest in building new refining capacity in the oil-producing province, one of several steps to deal with what Premier Rachel Notley called "an extraordinary and punishing oil price crisis."

Ontario's fiscal watchdog says that to fulfil his promise to balance the budget, Premier Doug Ford would need to make deep spending cuts that could cost $850 per person.