Colin Butler

A new study suggests the integrity of online voting in the 2022 Ontario municipal elections could have been undercut by two fundamental security flaws that would have left 70 percent of municipal elections at high risk of compromise.

New research out of the western U.S. suggests dams and ponds built by beavers can slow floods, store water and even create green firebreaks in wildfire-prone landscapes.

Canada's love affair with the summer burger is proving stronger than inflation. Ground beef hit $14.67 per kg in May 2025 — a 25 per cent increase over the same time last year. Yet, despite the sticker shock, Canadians appetite for beef shows no signs of waning.

With invasive carp breeding just across the border, it’s not a question of if, but when they arrive in Canada. Now federal scientists are racing to root out the carp before they crash the party and to capture an ecosystem on the brink of irreversible change.

The stubby, a Canadian beer bottle that was once a fixture in fridges from coast to coast, is now being reinterpreted as a subtle form of economic self-defence as trade tensions with the U.S. heat up.

Saugeen Ojibway Nation is taking Ontario to court, arguing decades of unpaid salt royalties and a pattern of exclusion from key decisions about stone and sand quarries in its territory reflect a broader problem: resource development that leaves Indigenous nations left out of the conversation.

Scientists who study fish suspect an outbreak of deadly hemorrhagic septicemia (VHS), could be behind the unusually large number of dead fish in Lake Huron this spring.

Big investors are increasingly buying up Ontario farmland — a trend experts say is making it increasingly difficult for small or aspiring farmers to acquire land and could have far-reaching consequences on rural communities.

A First Nation in southwestern Ontario says even if the community votes yes on a proposed $26 billion dump for nuclear waste within their traditional territory, it would likely be opposed by other First Nations, through whose territories the more than 5.5 million spent fuel rods would have to pass.

A Senate report lays out six recommendations for an overhaul of Canada's temporary foreign worker program, one the report states is 'not working for migrant workers and could be better for employers.'