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Halifax’s city council has directed the mayor to ask the Nova Scotia government for consultation on whether it is considering strengthening his authority.

Transatlantic trade 'dialogue' to focus on critical minerals for defence and clean energy technologies, along with energy, quantum manufacturing, and green steel and aluminum, with an action plan to follow "within three months". 

Research says Google’s carbon emissions went up by 65% between 2019-2024, not 51% as the tech giant had claimed

Indigenous representatives of an oilsands monitoring program say Alberta won’t increase funding to keep pace with oilsands expansion and inflation — and the shortfall risks compromising monitoring work, according to a letter obtained by Canada’s National Observer.

Trump-aligned congresspeople aren’t spreading wildfire disinformation in a vacuum; American social media giants are enabling a haze of conspiracy theories and misinformation about the wildfires ravaging Canadian forests, and are disguising the fossil fuel industry's role in the crisis, researchers have found. 

Prime Minister Mark Carney will be meeting with his cabinet and Canada's premiers to discuss U.S. President Donald Trump's new threat to slap 35 per cent tariffs on Canadian goods next month.

Carney promised to meet with First Nations after chiefs said their rights were not respected by the rush to push the bill through Parliament.

Prime Minister Mark Carney says the Canadian government will "steadfastly" defend workers and businesses following the latest trade threats by US President Donald Trump.

Manitoba is under a provincewide state of emergency as wildfires continue to rage, forcing even more evacuations out of northern communities.

The federal government will explain today how it plans to reimburse auto dealers who were left hanging when Ottawa suspended its electric vehicle rebate program earlier this year.

US President Donald Trump threatened to impose 35 per cent tariffs on Canadian imports on Aug. 1 in a letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney posted on social media on Thursday night, evidently setting a new date for bilateral negotiations between the two countries.

Ten people are hospitalized with measles in British Columbia, with one active, contagious case as of July 8, the province's health ministry said.

Parliament's fiscal watchdog is projecting that the Canada Infrastructure Bank will fall more than $20 billion short of its investment targets for the coming years.

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s stripping of landmark Biden-era investment tax credits from American renewables players has sparked conversations about shifting capital north to Canadian projects, says industry body.

In a report published Thursday by the UN Environment Agency, a team of researchers warn that mega-floods could contaminate huge areas of land with chemicals, including some banned decades ago because they're so toxic.