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The bill allows the province to assume the City of Toronto's spot in a tripartite agreement that governs the land, an agreement that is currently between the city, the federal government and the Toronto Port Authority.

"The responders weren't just FEMA, it was people taking up direct collections for food, for clothing; it was a community response."

"The idea for a dedicated consultancy arm actually predates GCC's launch in 2020. Right from the beginning, it was clear that while shared standards, tools and advocacy are essential, many organisations would require hands-on, tailored support to implement meaningful change."

The city has been conducting prescribed burning for about two decades, and cities across North America perform the burns annually to support fire-dependent ecosystems.

The FARM Act, introduced by David Bexte, would require the federal minister to approve new agricultural products on a provisional basis within 90 days if they are already approved in at least two trusted jurisdictions.

The response that we saw was more of a, well, we already have that authority... so really nothing much needs to change.

Hoppers, like Pixar's pre-Disney films, is a delight. The beavers' world is immersive and richly realized, grounded in science but never dry. The plot zigs and zags between moments of absurdity and emotional heft to stirring effect; I cried multiple times, and not just because of the low-hanging fruit of grandma death.

Minden Hills has been under a state of emergency since Tuesday, with flooding affecting homes and roads, and the local arena being converted into an evacuation center.

The town declared a state of emergency Tuesday at 2:00 p.m., citing an increasing level of water on its Gull River which flows directly through the town and more rainy, warmer weather forecasted for the next five to ten days.

Doly Begum stated, 'After speaking with so many of you over the past few months, I actually decided to run federally because this is a crucial moment for Canada. I'm running to bring Scarborough Southwest's voice to Ottawa.'

The Greenbelt, an over 800,000-hectare ecologically sensitive zone around the Greater Golden Horseshoe, was created in 2005. It provides environmental protection and specifies where development should not occur.

O n January 6, 2021, the day of the Capitol insurrection, many people were transfixed by what they saw in Washington. It was only a heroic effort by the police that kept the insurrectionists out of the House of Representatives, where elected members and staff took refuge behind chairs and under desks. In one sense, the riot, with its outlandish characters wearing costumes and face paint, felt like an absurd exclamation mark that punctuated the end of an erratic presidency.

The former US senator from Wisconsin, who served for almost two decades as one of the chamber's most ardent advocates for climate action, publicly rebuked Trump's January 7 withdrawal of the United States from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC): 'Nothing in the Constitution grants the president any such power.'

Ottawa has an image problem. Canada's capital and fourth-largest city is generally viewed as a sleepy, characterless government town. There is some truth to that. There is a lot of truth to that.

I think I might have to cancel the work that you had booked in, because I'm heading to Parliament. And when I get there, I will make space for everyone doing jobs like mine, we will finally get a seat at the table.

Provincial decisions affect First Nations' rights, lands and environments, and FOI requests are one of the few mechanisms available to First Nations and the public to understand how those decisions were made. Having access to this information, particularly if it's a decision made by the premier or other cabinet ministers, or just understanding how those decisions came to be, is just part of good governance.

Wildfires are no longer a once-a-year emergency in Canada. In 2025, fires burned more than 8.3 million hectares across multiple provinces (roughly the size of New Brunswick), making it the second-worst wildfire season in the country. Some experts warn this could become the new normal. At The Walrus Talks Wildfires, expert voices from the health, climate, policy, and technology sectors come together to explore the impact of the wildfire crisis.

In April 2024, Churchill's waste management facility-an old military building known as L5-burned to the ground. Spontaneous combustion in the gaseous garbage pile was the likely cause. The warehouse had been capable of storing up to three years' worth of the town's garbage at a time. Overnight, the town's 900 or so residents were left with nothing.

Wildfires have become an ever bigger problem in Canada. The 2018 wildfires were the biggest in British Columbia's history, but this record was broken in 2021, and then again in 2023, when fires consumed an area three times the size of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia and the smoke travelled as far as New York City.

Ontario will consolidate its 36 conservation authorities into nine across the province. Environment Minister Todd McCarthy says there will be no job losses as a result. He says the province listened to feedback after several town halls and 14,000 comments on its plan, which initially proposed having seven conservation authorities.

About fifteen kilometres northwest from Kitamaat is Kitimat, the industrial town that the global mining group Alcan (acquired by Rio Tinto in 2007) carved from the rainforest in the 1950s to house workers and support the needs of its aluminum smelter.

The total proposed 2026 operating budget amounts to $18.9 billion, with 31 per cent being covered by property taxes and 24 per cent made up of federal and provincial funding. The rest is made up of smaller measures, including rate programs (12 per cent), transit fares (six per cent), and reserves (nine per cent). Chow submitted her budget proposal on Feb. 1, based on a city staff proposal put forward on Jan. 8.

MP Jamil Jivani headed home to his riding of BowmanvilleOshawa North on Friday after several meetings in Washington, D.C. His itinerary included meetings with his university friend U.S. Vice-President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and automotive manufacturer General Motors. Some 1,200 workers were laid off last week when the automaker cut one of three shifts at its Oshawa plant.

Existing contracts have no provisions for snow removal That's because the city's snow-clearing contracts which were signed in 2021 under former mayor John Tory and don't expire until 2029 don't include any provisions for snow removal. Contracted companies are only responsible for plowing city streets, so they have no obligation to actually take the snow, load it onto dump trucks and drive it out to a storage facility.