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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is meeting with incoming and outgoing Liberal MPs in Ottawa today to talk about approaches to the issue of climate change on one hand — and to growing tensions over the stalled western energy economy on the other.

In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at the pollution cost of idling, historical carbon emissions and the connection between population and climate change.

Flush with surplus money, the Coalition Avenir Québec government is handing out goodies for families, making good on its promise to eliminate the sliding-scale system for daycare fees and boosting the child allowance.  

A New York judge has ordered Donald Trump to pay $2 million US to settle a lawsuit alleging he misused his charitable foundation to further his political and business interests before he became U.S. president.

A Calgary police officer has been fired after he tried to start an unwanted and "predatory" relationship with a young woman who had just tried to kill herself, sending her up to a hundred text messages in four days while she lay recovering in hospital and dropping by her home uninvited.

A Quebec woman facing extradition to the United States to face charges in relation to a child custody order was found dead at the Leclerc jail in Laval earlier this week. 

Forcing a military court to hear and decide an appeal from former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr is inappropriate, the American government says.

Mike Lees has become a paleontologist-in-training after an impromptu pee break in Edmonton’s river valley led to the discovery of a petrified tree stump from the time of the dinosaurs. 

Mike Lees has become an amateur paleontologist after an impromptu pee break in Edmonton's river valley last month led to the discovery of a petrified tree stump estimated to be from the time of the dinosaurs. 

The man arrested in the stabbing death of three-year-old Hunter Straight-Smith is now facing more serious charges of second-degree murder.

John Bercow is not a man of few words. And now that he has been freed from the enforced neutrality of his job as Speaker of Britain's House of Commons, he has quite a few things to say. Brexit? A historic mistake. Donald Trump? A leader who has said "loathsome and despicable" things.

An Island mother is suing P.E.I.'s French Language School Board, alleging it failed to stop years of bullying against her son, who has autism. 

The Transportation Safety Board released four new recommendations Thursday for the operators of small aircraft in Canada.

Canada's federal housing agency says the residential market showed a moderate degree of vulnerability in its latest quarterly report but that imbalances continue to narrow.

Premier Jason Kenney spent over $16,000 in public money to fly two Conservative premiers from Calgary to the Council of Federation meeting in Saskatoon last July, Alberta's NDP opposition said Thursday.

More than 550 objects have been unintentionally left in Canadian medical and surgery patients between 2016 and 2018, and the problem appears to be getting worse.

Émilie Dubois, a French citizen, applied to settle in Quebec after completing a PhD at a French-language university, but the province turned her down because part of her thesis was in English.

Émilie Dubois, a French citizen, applied to settle in Quebec after completing a PhD at a French-language university, but the province turned her down because part of her thesis was in English.

Notorious career criminal Larry Stanford has been sentenced to nine years in prison for the violent 2017 sexual assault of a female neighbour.

China and the United States have agreed to cancel in phases the tariffs imposed during their months-long trade war, the Chinese Commerce Ministry said Thursday without specifying a timetable.

Justin Elias, 31, was found guilty in N.W.T. Territorial Court in August of killing the animal without a bear tag, a violation of the Wildlife Act, and for unlawfully keeping the bear's pelt.

Wayne Anderson says he's considering legal action against Saskatchewan's Ministry of Corrections after his son was injured and went undetected for two hours inside his Saskatoon Correctional Centre cell.

Dozens of people were feared still missing on Thursday after an ambush on workers near a Canadian-owned mine in Burkina Faso killed at least 37 and wounded 60 in the worst such attack in the West African nation for years.

A Chinese court sentenced nine fentanyl traffickers on Thursday in a case culminating a rare collaboration between Chinese and U.S. law enforcement to crack down on global networks that manufacture and distribute lethal synthetic opioids.

A Brampton, Ont., man has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder after his sons, 9 and 12 years old, were found dead late last night at a home in a quiet residential neighbourhood.

Two boys, 9 and 12 years old, were found dead late last night in Brampton, Ont., after Peel Region officers were dispatched to a home in a quiet residential neighbourhood.

Two boys, 9 and 12 years old, were found dead late last night in Brampton, Ont., after Peel Region officers were called to a home.

A Halifax woman says a letter she received from Nova Scotia's vital statistics department is outrageous and outdated because it requires the "unmarried mother" to confirm the identity of her baby's father.

A new analysis from Deloitte Insights has quantified the return on investment for workplace mental health programs. The median yearly return on investment was $1.62, rising to $2.18 for programs that have been in place for three years.

The CAQ, elected on a nationalist platform that emphasizes identity issues, has struggled to follow through on promises that often appear at odds with the realities of a province in the midst of a historic labour shortage.

The disqualification of Nigerian film Lionheart from the best international film feature category at the Oscars is raising questions about whether films made in English in countries outside the U.S. should be allowed to compete.

Western alienation is not a new thing; anyone who's paid attention to federal politics over the past two decades knows that. What few may remember, however, is how closely the political climate after the 2000 election mirrored what we see today.

Years after the Don Meredith sexual harassment scandal rocked the Red Chamber, some independent senators are now pushing a Senate committee to compensate his alleged victims.

Western alienation is not a new thing; anyone who's paid attention to federal politics over the past two decades knows that. What few may remember, however, is how closely the political climate after the 2000 election mirrored what we see today.

Cong Peiwu wore a black Mao suit to present his letters at Rideau Hall - unlike his predecessor, who wore a business suit. The black Mao suit is enjoying a comeback in China, led by President Xi Jinping. It carries a lot of symbolic meaning and its reappearance says something about where China is going.

The latest star among non-dairy milk products comes from one of Canada’s most underrated crops: oats.

As campaigning begins for the Dec. 12 U.K. election, Prime Minister Boris Johnson faces a young Labour Party opponent determined to knock him out of his seat and stop his Brexit plans at the same time.

As campaigning begins for the Dec. 12 U.K. election, Prime Minister Boris Johnson faces a Labour Party opponent determined to knock him out of his seat and stop his Brexit plans at the same time.

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer's appearance Wednesday after a party caucus meeting was a reminder that the questions raised during this fall's election campaign won't easily go away.

The owner of the illegal Toronto rooming house that caught fire and claimed the life of a 24-year-old woman will have to pay the victim’s parents more than $1.3 million  in damages.

"In essence, we put it out there. We said we will buy your vapes not for the going price, not even for half price, but we'll buy your vapes and give you credit at the school cafeteria," said Principal Greg Kenyon. So far, he says, it's working.

Alberta politicians are to debate the role of conscience rights and the responsibilities of physicians asked to assist or advise on abortions, contraception or medically assisted deaths.

A B.C. woman suffered severe pain after a medical device was left inside her after an emergency C-section. Research shows she's not alone — Canada leaves more surgical instruments like sponges, needles and clamps inside patients than any other developed country.

The Saudi government recruited two Twitter employees to get personal account information belonging to their critics, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Canada's telecom companies are rolling out new call blocking technologies they say could reduce the number of phone calls Canadians get from scam artists. The move comes as scam artists have been using the phone numbers of more than a dozen federal government bodies to defraud Canadians.

A B.C. man has been charged with faking military service in a so-called "stolen valour" offence so he could allegedly apply to receive a housing subsidy meant for veterans.

A B.C. man has been charged with faking military service in a "stolen valour" offence so he could allegedly apply to receive a housing subsidy meant for veterans.

Last July, a staff member at a Habitat for Humanity ReStore location in Peterborough, Ont., stumbled onto a historical find that was steeped in mystery.

Ontario's Office of the Chief Coroner says it's investigating the death of a 19-year-old First Nations man a few hours after he was released from the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre.

Ontario's Office of the Chief Coroner says it's investigating the death of a 19-year-old First Nations man a few hours after he was released from the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre.