Canada is winning a rare bit of environmental praise from the international community for its stance on pollution from shipping in Arctic waters.Docum...

Another massive Chinese-owned resource project is before Prime Minister Stephen Harper's cabinet.Some time in the new year, four federal ministers are...

Private-sector help and innovative designs are making headway in improving substandard housing in Canada's North, says a new report from the Conferenc...

With rapidly shrinking Arctic ice and expanding interest in northern shipping and resource exploitation, issues of sovereignty loom ever larger over t...

During this past week Arctic sea ice retreated to all-time lows, shattering the previous record set in 2007 by an area roughly the size of (ironically) Alberta. This past week, the much-anticipated new and improved federal regulations on greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired electricity plants leaked out. To no one's surprise, they are significantly weakened from what we had been told to expect.

This month I visited the northernmost region in my riding, Nunavik, and met with people from all walks of life there. Trips like those give you a real reality check that some politicians go out of their way to avoid. Last week the Prime Minister had a chance to begin listening to the people of the North, but instead he stayed inside his bubble. Clearly, this is work that Conservatives cannot properly do.

Canada and the United States have a chance to set the Arctic agenda for the next four years — if they decide to take it, says a report from two prom...

OTTAWA - Six years after the Harper government declared the Arctic to be a new operations area for the Canadian military, the army has struggled to fi...

The federal government says budget concerns are behind cuts to a planned Arctic naval facility.A defence department official says downgrades to plans ...

OTTAWA - At least $1.4 billion is expected to be carved out of spending at National Defence in the coming fiscal year, but a longtime critic says some...

CALGARY - The head of the Royal Canadian Navy says Canada needs to bolster its military presence in the Arctic to prepare for a boom in human and econ...

Leading atmospheric scientists are warning that Canada's cuts to its ozone monitoring program are already having effects on the world's a...

TORONTO - Canada's military is part of the growing civil infrastructure in the Canadian Arctic, said Canada's defence minister.Speaking through a vide...

Canada gets its chance to lead the Arctic world next year — and analysts say the country needs to start laying the groundwork for it now."Canada can...

A second term for Obama might be good for Canada. Obama's departure from Bush policies regarding Canada has been driven by electoral considerations, and in a second term, Obama might be less inclined to make such concessions to his base at Canada's expense.

Inuit in Nunavut expect to receive hundreds of millions of dollars over the next decades after passing a resolution to charge a new royalty on resourc...

OTTAWA - The Canadian military will have to look to commercial contractors and possibly even exchanges with the Americans in order to sustain itself w...