National Observer

Three relatively strong earthquakes were recorded Sunday night in the Pacific Ocean off Vancouver Island.

This Khashoggi business has turned into a laughable parody of a Monty Python dead parrot sketch.

As Ontario municipalities head to the elections on Monday, we asked Toronto candidates if they had a plan to fight climate change.

Supporters chanted, "Kennedy, Kennedy," and broke out in dance as results came in early Sunday morning, heralding Stewart in as the first Independent mayor of Vancouver in more than 30 years.

Climate change isn’t just about starving polar bears or melting ice, writes Sheila Watt-Cloutier. It is about human rights, human health, food security, poverty, loss of traditional knowledge, and global insecurity as traditional ways of life that are lost to glacier melt, coastal erosion, permafrost melt, rising seas, extreme drought, floods and violent weather.

Hundreds of people gathered on a cold, crisp Thursday in Ottawa to honour a national movement against violence towards Indigenous and non-Indigenous women and children.

One of Canada's most celebrated singer-songwriters, k.d. lang, has been awarded Alberta's highest honour.

In the face of possible and widespread disruption to our integrated North American economy, we have protected more than $2-billion a day in cross-border trade and tariff-free access for more than 70 percent of Canadian exports, writes Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland, defending the new United States Mexico Canada Agreement.

The Canadian arm of an Italian multinational company soon expects to be producing over a million tonnes of cement every year from a plant halfway between Montreal and Ottawa.

One-in-three British Columbians expect to buy an electric car as their next vehicle, but they’re going to have trouble finding one.

Marijuana smoke wafted through the heart of Montreal's downtown shopping district on Wednesday, October 17, 2018, as hundreds of people lined up to purchase legal cannabis for the first time at Quebec's state-run shops.

Okanagan Nation Grand Chief Stewart Philip put it best when he said that the decision to exclude Indigenous peoples from the Treaty’s renegotiation is a “shocking unilateral decision” and an “act of absolute treachery.”

Chris McDermott, one of Canada's early climate change negotiators, says it's time to ask: At what point do we decide that a carbon tax is too politically toxic to pursue further and start talking about alternatives?

Sylvie Cadieux was concerned when she first heard that a cannabis company was setting up shop in Masson-Angers, a small bedroom community in Gatineau, Quebec, across the river from Ottawa. And now?

David McLaughlin of the International Institute for Sustainable Development provides key citations from the special report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to show how Canada already is, and increasingly will be, affected by global warming and climate change.

Ian Power made sure he was first in line on a chilly October night to make a midnight purchase that will likely cement his place in Canadian history.

After more than a year of leading intense trade negotiations with the United States and Mexico, the first thing Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland did when the new agreement was reached was lay on the floor of the prime minister's office.

"Off the chart" toxic releases in Saskatchewan have been going unpunished for years. Provincial air quality standards have been breached hundreds of times since 2014, but those living nearby were not warned and oil companies responsible for some of the emissions have faced no charges or fines.