The rains soaked southern Alberta for days, unrelenting, saturating soil already sodden with melting snow — and before long Calgary was awash as rivers overflowed their banks.
Environment Canada has been doing fewer inspections, investigations and prosecutions over the last five years to enforce a law protecting people from toxic chemicals and air pollution.
Teck Resources says it's baffled over the virtual disappearance of a rare fish from a lengthy stretch of a long-contaminated river downstream from the company's coal-mining operations in southeastern British Columbia.
Drivers were urged to stay off the roads and children got an unexpected day off from school on Friday, February 7, 2020, as heavy snow battered a large swath of southern Quebec.
The federal government expects to make some changes this year to keep Canada's garbage from illegally ending up on foreign shores, after needing to bring dozens of shipping containers of rotting garbage back home from at least two Asian countries last year.
Residents of northeastern Nova Scotia anxiously awaiting word from politicians in Halifax and Ottawa on the contentious plan by Northern Pulp to pump 85 million litres of effluent a day into the Northumberland Strait.
German auto giant Volkswagen appears ready to strike a plea deal with Canada after being charged on Monday, December 9, 2019, for allegedly importing cars into this country that company executives knew violated emissions standards.
Thousands of Maritimers lost power on Thursday, October 17, 2019, as a slow-moving fall storm crawled through the region, bringing downpours, powerful gusts and downed trees.
An early blast of winter-like weather knocked out power and made travel nearly impossible in many parts of southern Manitoba on Friday, October 11, 2019.