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To achieve electrification goals, it will be advantageous for governments to take measures to support Indigenous-industry partnerships.

The climate skeptic leader of the increasingly popular Conservative Party of B.C. would consider building nuclear reactors if he wins next month’s provincial election, he said on Jordan Peterson's podcast.

The province aims to capture a "multi-hundred billion dollar" market with development of a fusion energy industrial ecosystem centred around a reactor design from Princeton University spin-off Stellarex.

We're a decade out from the Canadian goal of decarbonization for its electricity supply. Here's how each province and territory is faring in their quest to achieve that goal — and the very different measures they are taking to do so.

There are grounds for such optimism as Ottawa and an increasing number of provinces support its promise of zero emissions. The industry seeks to expand with this encouragement, promising the power foundation needed to achieve Canada's climate targets and energy security.

Safeguarding water near a planned nuclear waste facility requires more rigorous examination, Indigenous consultation and mitigation measures, an Algonquin First Nation chief told a federal committee Thursday.

Federal Energy and Natural Resources Minister Jonathon Wilkinson reaffirmed his government’s support for the nuclear industry with a $50-million investment to expand nuclear power generation in Ontario.

Ontario Power Generation plans to spend $2 billion on engineering and design work and securing key components for the project that is expected to be completed in the mid-2030s.

Ontario Power Generation should build an energy system based on renewable technologies rather than importing nuclear reactors from an unreliable French utility.

The approval of the controversial Chalk River project has left critics and some Algonquin First Nations reeling that environmental concerns brought to the nuclear safety regulator fell on deaf ears.

New Brunswick's Progressive Conservative government has released its strategy to become carbon neutral within 12 years through the use of nuclear, wind and solar energy.

Kebaowek First Nation, an Algonquin First Nation in Quebec, is thanking the Bloc Québécois for joining in opposition to a proposed nuclear waste site near the Ottawa River, a culturally important river and harvesting site for First Nations.

Dr. Donald (Moll) Flanders had dreams of peace as the Manhattan Project’s head of computation. But unlike his boss, Robert Oppenheimer, Moll did not live long enough to crusade for global abolition of the atomic bomb — and of all forms of warfare. 

Sierra Club Canada and three community groups want the federal environment minister to order an assessment of NB Power's plan to prep a site on the Bay of Fundy for an experimental small modular reactor.

The Ontario government is making a bid to build the province’s largest nuclear power project in more than 30 years.