National Observer

"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.

What the heck's up with wildfires and that state of emergency in B.C.? In a new video, Michael Ruffolo, explains.

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.

We’re very careful about what our kids eat, but what about the air they breathe?

Maxime Bernier's immigrant bashing wouldn’t be so offensive and worrisome if it were coming from some marginal political figure, but this isn’t some random, fringe member of the Conservative Party. He has been a long-standing member of Parliament, representing the Quebec riding of Beauce, has served in Harper’s administration for years, and came in a close second in the party's leadership race.

The smell of diesel filled the air as crews worked to recover a capsized tugboat that spilled as much as 22,000 litres of the fuel in the Fraser River between Vancouver and Richmond on Tuesday.

Parks Canada says two bison bulls have wandered out of Banff National Park — just a week after the herd became free-roaming animals.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will hole up with his newly shuffled cabinet for three days next week in Nanaimo, B.C.

An endangered orca's "tour of grief" is over after she spent nearly three weeks towing her dead calf around the Pacific Ocean, researchers said on Sunday, August 12, 2018.

The early cash-out of millions of dollars in stock options is being offered on top of about $3.9 million in bonuses offered to three of the top executives from Kinder Morgan Canada, the company said in a proxy document submitted to the U.S. securities regulator.

Heiltsuk leadership say the federal government put its reconciliation process “on thin ice” by failing to adequately consult Indigenous communities and collaborate with them in developing its Oceans Protection Plan (OPP). They voiced concern after the government announced on Thursday the winner of an open competition for a $67 million three-year contract.

Last Wednesday, a team of people from the Lake Ontario Waterkeeper environmental group descended on the Toronto harbourfront looking for any signs the previous night's massive, flash-flood rainfall had caused the city's ancient combined sewer system to overflow into the lake. They didn't need to dip a single test tube into the water to know it had.