Chris Arsenault

With British Columbia recording its hottest temperatures on record, Ottawa released its latest major report on climate change, probing how a warming planet will impact everything from infrastructure to tourism and geopolitics.

Many investors, including a little-known Canadian company, see huge profit potential in Guyana’s offshore oil deposits. But many critics say this poor South American country is selling out its natural bounty and getting little in return.

June 5 is the UN’s International Day for the Fight against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing (IUU), and officials say the issue is only getting worse globally. In Ecuador, they are turning to sophisticated technology to tackle the problem.

As countries race to adopt more electric technologies in the face of climate change, governments are battling to secure control over minerals such as copper and rare earths.

Investment firms are buying up U.S. homes — a development that’s “just in its infancy” in Canada, but a trend that could make it harder for families to buy homes.

The financial fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine hit home a long-standing problem in Canada, according to internal government documents: regulators don’t have basic information about who really owns key companies and assets.

For the first time ever, a Canadian province has filed criminal charges against a business for providing false information related to carbon offsets, underscoring the sometimes murky activities of companies in a complicated, rapidly growing industry worth hundreds of millions of dollars annually.

A small stock exchange in Toronto has become a global hub for companies trading in voluntary carbon offsets and more growth is expected, raising questions about the effectiveness of the new investments for fighting climate change.

The rising costs university libraries are paying to access journals have implications far beyond the ivory tower. From new cancer treatments to debates about foreign policy, new information enters the public domain through academic studies. Now libraries are having trouble affording the subscriptions.

The number of Canadian spies with permission to break the law is rising, according to an internal memorandum. The memo, marked secret, provides a glimpse into a murky world of how operatives can ignore normal rules with prior approval.