Kazi Stastna

The current crisis in the northern Ontario Cree community of Attawapiskat may have brought the issue of First Nations housing into the headlines, but many reserves have been struggling with housing shortages and substandard living conditions for years.

The fall of the Berlin Wall anniversary

An unlimited supply of clean water flowing freely from a tap and whisking away waste at the simple push of a lever is a given for most Canadians — but it’s a luxury that many First Nations communities can’t afford.

A month and a half into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, we’ve become so used to the steady stream of videos and images coming at us from the front lines that it’s easy to forget it’s not the norm to have a ringside seat to war unless you’re fighting in it.

Residents of Uvalde, Texas, say they don’t know what to make of the stunning admission by police Friday that they waited more than an hour outside the locked door of two classrooms at Robb Elementary School while children were inside with the gunman who shot 19 of their classmates and two teachers.

In the U.S. as in Canada, inflation has been most noticeable at the gas pump. But the jump in the cost of staples such as milk, eggs and flour is also hitting consumers and small businesses hard. In one neighbourhood in Washington, residents are struggling to adjust to the sticker shock of their wee…

As images of melting runways, buckling railway tracks and raging wildfires consumed the world’s attention this week, Americans remained deadlocked on how to slow the climate change that scientists say is driving much of the extreme weather we’re seeing.

They’ll be back. That’s what members of the House select committee investigating former U.S. president Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election promised at the conclusion of their last public hearing of the summer. We look at what legal and political analysts say were some of the most sig…

The race for the Republican presidential nomination won’t begin in earnest until after the midterms, but the question of whether former U.S. president Donald Trump will run already looms large.

“Green banks” are one way that the Biden administration intends to distribute the billions of dollars in clean energy funding contained in the Inflation Reduction Act. We take a closer look at these quasi-public entities meant to accelerate the adoption of solar, wind and other forms of renewable en…