The health risks of wildfires and their disproportionate impacts on First Nations have left health experts calling on Ottawa to increase funding and centralize environmental health research.
Saskatchewan says because Ottawa rejected most of its proposals, it decided to pull out of participating in the federal Liberal government's pavilion at the COP28 conference, set for later this month.
Ottawa residents showed up outside Parliament to crank up pressure on politicians and demand an end to fossil fuels three days before MPs return to the House of Commons for the fall session.
Indigenous Peoples demanding access to the Global Environment Facility welcomed the target set Thursday by the international council to fund Indigenous practices as part of the ratification of the Global Biodiversity Framework Fund, but concerns remain.
The remains of totalled fences, blown-out windows and ripped-off roofs were scattered across a south-end neighbourhood in Ottawa on Thursday after a tornado hit with little warning.
After her father was assassinated, Ilwad Elman and her family fled war-torn Somalia, becoming refugees in Canada. But at 20, she returned home — and stayed — to build support for survivors in a country where gender-based violence is rampant.
Are Canada's new passports a modest technological improvement or a Trojan horse intended to undermine Canada's values and erase its history? Welcome to the latest (and dumbest) front in our ever-expanding culture war, writes columnist Max Fawcett.