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Quebecers will be decked out in blue and white today as the Fête nationale holiday is marked by parades, celebrations, and heat warnings.

A peer review of fossil fuel subsidies between Canada and Argentina — already years behind schedule — stalled after Argentina ceased communication following its 2023 election and subsequent change in government.

Climate change has been exacerbating heat waves, and the problem isn't going away anytime soon. An increasingly hot planet — due largely to burning fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas — means already hot regions are getting worse.

Backed by a $70-million investment from GE Vernova Hitachi, the engineering and service centre will support Ontario's $20-billion small modular reactor (SMR) megaproject at the Darlington nuclear site. The plan projects a major shift toward nuclear power to meet rising electricity demand — while also showing increased reliance on fossil fuels over the next decade.

IADB’s proposals involve lenders using public money to buy up renewable energy loans in poor countries

Ahead of the NATO Summit in the Netherlands, ports in Nova Scotia, Denmark, Norway, Greenland, Iceland, and the Faroe Islands have formed the Northern Lights Ports Alliance to develop civil and naval industrial infrastructure with an eye on energy and geopolitical security.

In pricey spas, kelp facials and body wraps can set the esthetically inclined human back hundreds of dollars. But in the Salish Sea off British Columbia, southern resident killer whales are also using the sea plants for what scientists suspect are grooming purposes.

Work on climate change has largely focused on preventing it from getting worse, but as a new RBC report points out, businesses are also starting to think more about potential spending on adaptation and preparation as the costs of disasters pile up.

Prime Minister Mark Carney is in Belgium today, where he visited a military cemetery before meeting with European Union leaders at an EU-Canada summit.

Much of Ontario and southwestern Quebec will continue to bake in high temperatures on Monday and Tuesday as a heat dome lingers over the region.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford's government is proposing to weaken an impending slate of new recycling rules because producers of the materials said the system is getting too expensive.

Blame the heat dome hanging over Ontario and Quebec for some of the strange weather hitting other parts of the country.

It's been a year now since a new law took effect that requires companies to back up their environmental claims, but there's still a lot of unknowns about how the anti-greenwashing rules will play out.

Prime Minister Mark Carney called for de-escalation on Sunday after the United States carried out strikes against three Iranian nuclear sites earlier in the day.

A grassroots movement has propelled the province's Indigenous leaders into key roles in both recycling and zero waste innovation.