Canada

Liberals: TMX pipeline could fund $500 million a year in clean energy projects

OTTAWA - The Liberal government expects to get $500 million a year out of the expanded Trans Mountain pipeline and is promising to spend it all on cleaner sources of energy and projects that...

Oct 26, 2019

Life after losing: electoral defeat brings whole new set of challenges

OTTAWA - Brian Murphy barely had time to process losing his seat in the 2011 federal election before the House of Commons wrote to ask if he wanted it back. There was a catch,...

Oct 26, 2019

The family tree for the tree of life and feral cats; In-The-News for Oct. 24

In-The-News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Oct. 24. What we are watching i...

Oct 26, 2019

A list of actions being taken on climate change around the world

VANCOUVER - Fifteen young Canadians are suing the federal government over climate change. It's not the first climate change litigation. Here are five other cases: 1) An environmental group i...

Oct 25, 2019

Youths file lawsuit with Federal Court calling Ottawa to develop climate plan

VANCOUVER - A young plaintiff in a lawsuit against the federal government says she has suffered the debilitating consequences of Lyme disease because climate change has expanded the habitat of disease...

Oct 25, 2019

May sees room for consensus on climate action, pharmacare in new Parliament

OTTAWA - Green Leader Elizabeth May hopes to use whatever influence her three-member caucus has to ensure bolder climate action, a pharmacare plan and a promise of lower cellphone rates make thei...

Oct 25, 2019

Groups, councillor call on Montreal to end discriminatory police checks

Montreal community groups and a local city councillor want a ban on street checks by police. The coalition of groups announced today they'll ask the City of Montreal to put a moratorium on t...

Oct 25, 2019

Activist Greta Thunberg attends 'post-election climate strike' in Vancouver

VANCOUVER - Swedish activist Greta Thunberg attended a climate rally in Vancouver on Friday when 15 young people announced their plans to sue the federal government because of the impac...

Oct 25, 2019

N.S. government to return to talks with Crowns, as controversial law paused

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's Liberal government today held off on enacting legislation that would have forced striking Crowns back to work, promising to return to the neg...

Oct 25, 2019

Quebec hopes Trump administration lawsuit doesn't force California out of carbon market

MONTREAL - The Trump administration won't slow down Quebec's progress on reducing carbon emissions, Premier Francois Legault said Wednesday following news that California is being sued for w...

Oct 25, 2019