A new report by Oceana Canada says Canadian fisheries management has "fallen short" over the last five years, with nearly one in five fish stocks still "critically depleted."
The change in the proposed Environmental Goals and Climate Change Reduction Act introduced Wednesday moves up the phasing out of coal by about 10 years.
When Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil privately decided earlier this year he would retire after 17 years in politics, he had no idea of the challenges he was about to face.
A COVID-19 vaccine-development partnership between Canada and a Chinese firm has been abandoned, ending clinical trials that were to be conducted by a Dalhousie University research lab.
As people resume springtime recreational activities including gardening, the Nature Conservancy of Canada is urging them to help minimize the spread of invasive species.
Under fire for how they alerted the public to a 12-hour massacre that took the lives of 22 people, the Nova Scotia RCMP defended their actions on Wednesday, April 22, 2020, saying their use of Twitter was effective.
Further measures are coming to protect the endangered North Atlantic right whale in Canadian waters, federal Fisheries Minister Bernadette Jordan told a meeting on fishing gear innovation on Tuesday, February 11, 2020.
Nova Scotia's environment minister concedes the province is living up to the spirit of the law but not the letter in allowing the Northern Pulp mill to continue to dump effluent past a legislated deadline on Friday, January 31, 2020.
After a more than four-year hiatus from politics, former cabinet minister Peter MacKay officially launched his bid to capture the leadership of the federal Conservative party before an enthusiastic hometown crowd in Nova Scotia.
After weeks of warning of the pending end of its mill operations in Nova Scotia's Pictou County, Northern Pulp now says it is committed to remaining in the province for the long term.
