Municipalities have been aggressively urging the federal government to commit more dollars toward infrastructure, noting their communities cannot significantly ramp up homebuilding to match population growth without things like water supply and roads.
Thousands of people gathered in cities across Canada on Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023, for competing protests, yelling and chanting at each other about the way schools instruct sexuality and gender identity and how teachers refer to transgender youth.
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe is ready to use the notwithstanding clause to protect a new rule requiring parental permission for transgender and nonbinary students to use different names or pronouns at school.
The federal government is ready to pay up to $200 million to protect a vital land corridor linking Nova Scotia and New Brunswick from climate change-related flooding, a federal minister has confirmed.
Irving Oil said on Wednesday, June 7, 2023, that a strategic review of the company is underway and that it is looking at a series of options about its future, including a possible sale of the business.
Canada's premiers will formally accept an offer from the federal government for billions in additional health-care funding, but say they will also insist the money continue to flow for more than 10 years.
Premiers have expressed optimism about striking an improved national health funding deal with the federal government, ahead of next week's meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
A "Team Canada" approach is needed to fix the country's health-care problems, the premiers of the Maritimes and Ontario said on Monday, August 22, 2022, but they offered no specifics.
A coalition of environmental groups is calling on Ottawa to reject any proposals to build export facilities for liquefied natural gas on Canada's East Coast, saying such projects will produce "climate-wrecking emissions."
Many provinces indicated on Wednesday, February 9, 2022, they would not rush to follow the lead of Alberta and Saskatchewan by quickly dropping COVID-19 vaccination passports and indoor mask requirements.
Through most of the COVID-19 pandemic, Atlantic Canada won international praise for the region's largely successful efforts to keep infection rates low — but the arrival of Omicron has upended its vaunted COVID-Zero strategy.
With the phaseout of coal set to take effect in 2030, Ottawa has plans to create an Atlantic Loop, linking power grids in the East to make them more resilient.
As New Brunswick prepares to drop all of its COVID-19 restrictions on Friday, July 30, 2021, night, some infectious disease experts are warning the province should prepare for a surge in cases this fall because of the highly contagious Delta variant.