Climate change is making wildfire behaviour stranger than fiction
Scientists have used recent B.C. fires to model the effects of nuclear war on climate.
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Special forces looks at recruiting off the street amid shifting demands
The Canadian Forces are considering whether to recruit elite special-forces soldiers straight off the street rather than forcing them to follow the traditional route of first spending several years in the military.
No sanctions relief without denuclearization, Tillerson says at summit in Vancouver
In 2003, the two Koreas and their superpower allies -- the U.S., China, Russia, and Japan -- met in Beijing to negotiate a peaceful path to denuclearizing the Korean peninsula. Over six years, the Six-Party Talks made halting diplomatic progress before North Korea suddenly pulled out of negotiations in 2009.
A running list of the insults between two of the world’s most volatile leaders
To help keep track of where things stand in North Korea, we’ve kept a running list of the insults between two of the world’s most volatile leaders.
'North Korea will certainly come up': Tillerson makes first Canadian visit
American officials say the North Korea nuclear crisis will be one of several topics of conversation when Rex Tillerson makes his first visit to Canada as secretary of state on Tuesday, December 19, 2017.
Time to join U.S. ballistic missile defence: Conservatives
"The last six months have been a gamechanger," Conservative foreign affairs critic Erin O'Toole said Wednesday, referring to South Korea's sabre rattling.
'Sleep well': Trump team seeks to de-escalate the boss's nuclear talk
On an issue with the highest stakes imaginable, the life-and-death matter of a nuclear showdown, Donald Trump's team delivered mixed messages Wednesday.
Defence plan calls for cyber and drone attacks to meet 21st century threats
Canada will add elite special forces commandos, wage offensive cyberwarfare attacks and deploy armed drones to international battlefields to meet 21st century threats.
Years after Fukushima meltdown, Saskatchewan still suffering
The economic aftershocks of the Fukushima nuclear disaster are striking home for Canadians in the mines of northern Saskatchewan.
Groups urge Trudeau to fix Canada's nuclear law
Staff at Canada's nuclear watchdog were developing strategic plans for management to review its oversight role based on the "political environment" in 2015, says an internal federal document.