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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.

Geothermal can provide year-round, carbon free heat for greenhouses. The communities of Port Hope Simpson, Cartwright and Black Tickle are hoping government-funded studies show they have the needed heat.

A new, peer-reviewed study appears to show a link between Hurricane Sandy — a 2012 storm that affected the entire eastern seaboard and left large portions of New York City flooded — and distinct brain differences in children whose mothers were pregnant with them at the time.

The Federal Court of Appeal has granted a stay that pauses the potential cull of nearly 400 ostriches at a B.C. farm. Court records show that a motion to pause plans for the cull, pending an appeal, was granted this afternoon in Ottawa.

The bill will give cabinet enhanced powers to approve and accelerate projects it deems to be in the national interest. It now goes to the Senate for final approval, where it is expected to pass.

Rescuers in Alberta are set to resume their search today for anyone else caught up in a massive rockfall that killed one and injured three in a remote section of Banff National Park.

Prime Minister Mark Carney's major projects and internal trade bill will be voted on today before the House of Commons rises until September.

Faced with escalating conflict in the Middle East, a collapsing global trade system and a department struggling to reform itself, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says she relishes the job of helping Canada navigate a turbulent world.

Mike Pemberton has been named the new leader of the Yukon Liberal Party and will be the territory's 11th premier.

The Quebec government is scaling back its projections for greenhouse gas emissions reductions due to the Trump administration.

British Columbia's Forest Practices Board says a two-year investigation has found outdated rules and unclear responsibility are stopping forestry from becoming a wildfire prevention tool.

With the FIFA World Cup taking place in less than a year, host cities Vancouver and Toronto are working hard to accommodate both the incoming national teams and their fans with new infrastructure. But a conservation group hopes to convince the hosts to consider the tournament’s enormous waste footprint, too.