RBC, Canada’s largest bank and the world’s largest fossil fuel financier, is trying to buy HSBC’s Canadian division. If approved, it would be the biggest bank merger in Canadian history.
There is a clash of wills growing in Atlantic Canada over two new climate policies that take effect this weekend, with premiers demanding Ottawa put the brakes on the plan and the federal government accusing them of playing politics with the planet.
Smoky air from Canada’s wildfires shrouded broad swaths of the U.S. from Minnesota to New York and Kentucky on Wednesday, June 28, 2023, prompting warnings to stay inside and exacerbating health risks for people already suffering from industrial pollution.
Drifting smoke from the ongoing wildfires across Canada is creating curtains of haze and raising air quality concerns throughout the Great Lakes region and in parts of the central and eastern United States.
The Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre says 76,129 square kilometres of forest and other land have burned since Jan. 1. That exceeds the previous record set in 1989 of 75,596 square kilometres, according to the National Forestry Database.
More than 80 per cent of Canadians surveyed believe it’s important for Canada to invest in zero-emission ports, vessels, and shipping routes, a new survey finds.
More than one in four Canadians told a polling firm this week that they have been affected by the record-setting wildfires that have rocked much of Canada over the spring, and more than three in four say they think there are more fires now than in the past.
Canada's top court will deliver the final word on Friday on whether the pact between Canada and the United States to control the flow of asylum seekers violates their fundamental rights.
Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said it is not about shutting down Canada's fossil fuel industry, but the sector will only survive if it massively invests in technology to cut greenhouse-gas emissions from extracting and refining oil and gas.