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The businessman's plan to build his behemoth data centre in northern Alberta hit a roadblock this week after an Alberta judge sided with a First Nation appealing a key water licence for the project.

Within weeks of emerging online, the conspiracy theory had jumped into real life, fuelling a powerful kickback to local planning and environmental initiatives that would have previously left most citizens unbothered.

The Carney government is quietly trying to let politicians override Canada's food safety laws in a move the union representing federal food and farm inspectors says could risk Canadians' health and safety.

Rebel News says it plans to register as a third-party advertiser during Alberta's secession referendum in support of the separatist cause.

The provincial and federal housing ministers have fired warning shots at the Vancouver mayor's second attempt to reverse his city's restrictions on natural gas use for heating buildings and water.

The 10-person committee unanimously recommended in a Wednesday report that Ottawa immediately pause its decision to close the centres and consult with farmers, researchers, advocates and industry groups to fully understand the scientific and economic impact of closing the facilities and research programs.

The article claimed that researchers at the University of Victoria in BC and Fisheries and Oceans Canada had found a way to model the plumes of sediment released by deep-sea mining operations, offering "tangible insight into how future operations could be precisely managed, pushing back against the narrative of unmanageable risk."

When Donald Trump took office and began levelling trade threats against Canada, environmentalists raised fears that pending environmental regulations for per- and poly-fluoroalkyl (PFAS) chemicals would be jettisoned to avoid his ire. They may be correct.

When four of six candidates running to lead the Conservative Party of British Columbia gathered for the first debate of the leadership race, they were in "violent agreement" to back most of the party's current policy planks — and slam the two no-shows.

Nova Scotia will pay Dalhousie University to study fracking risks while simultaneously helping gas companies drill exploratory wells — a deal critics call “very worrisome.”

Danielle Smith's government is exempting celebrity investor Kevin O'Leary's massive Wonder Valley data centre near Grande Prairie, Alta., from a provincial environmental assessment, Canada's National Observer has learned.

Far-right extremists drove a "sharp increase" in online hate against trans people and other members of the LGBTQ+ community in Canada and worldwide after the Tumbler Ridge shooting last month, researchers have found.

BC's top 10 industrial water users use more than 512 billion litres of water per year combined, and collectively pay the province about the cost of a Vancouver condo for the right.

The Trump administration's move to gut the bedrock of US climate legislation last week presents Canada with an inevitable choice: lower our standards to meet theirs and remain competitive in North America, or shift our trade to Europe and other countries with higher standards, experts say.

The onslaught came immediately after a federal court judge ruled in May the agency could cull a herd of ostriches in Edgewood, BC, to control an avian flu outbreak. That court ruling fueled a months-long battle pitting the agency against the farmers and their allies — a group that included far-right Freedom Convoy influencers, health nuts, antivaxxers and US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Health risks exposed in a blockbuster French TV investigation about Canadian lentils have introduced new tensions between Carney's European trade ambitions and his government's proposal to eliminate a key part of Canada's pesticide risk assessment.

The agency that regulates pesticides in Canada quietly ended the review of its practices last month, but will "explore more cost-effective policy and procedural approaches to address the proposed changes," an agency spokesperson told Canada's National Observer.

"We realized we were basically working for an oil company," said Holly Alpine, a former Microsoft employee who quit her dream job working on sustainability with the company when she realized that like most tech companies, it is helping fossil fuel companies extract more oil and gas.

Wildfires have burned about seven per cent of Canada's forests — roughly 27.3 million hectares — since 2023, and the country’s tree nurseries are wondering how they can possibly keep up.

Nova Scotia's ban on entering the forest due to wildfire fears comes as the province deals with a moderate-to-severe drought, no rain in the forecast and a forest more susceptible to burn because of logging, say experts.