Report on billionaires in the Trump administration, their conflicts, and political donations.

Canadian government officials met with fossil fuel lobbyists more than 1,300 times in 2024, including at least 83 times with Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Tim Hodgson. At the same time, the...

A new Carleton University study has found that temporarily closing roads to vehicles can reduce air and noise pollution by about 60 per cent for pedestrians and cyclists.

At least six of the city's councillors are having second thoughts about a proposed data centre .

A single box in the 49-page document is dedicated to the environmental impacts of AI. It acknowledges that AI data centres require a lot of energy and increase water usage, but does not propose any ne...

Steven Guilbeault's resignation from the Liberal caucus marks the end of a certain approach to doing climate politics. That's not necessarily a bad thing, either.

Insects have been part of human diets for centuries, yet in many Western countries, even the suggestion of eating one is enough to trigger immediate disgust.

The United Conservative Caucus said Arundeep Singh Sandhu was just "observing" separatist David Parker's presentation. Digital evidence suggests he is more deeply involved.

In August 2025, the province launched Ontario’s Environmental Registry consultation on expanding natural gas usage. Soon after, Enbridge sent municipalities across Ontario a ready-made lobbying packag...

The first of five major demonstrations across the country was staged in Ottawa on Tuesday, where environmental and Indigenous-rights activists called for public funding to be redirected from LNG to cl...

As the NDP prepares to announce its new leader this Sunday, the fundraising data shows a clear front-runner in former journalist Avi Lewis.

The Information and Privacy Commission sent out an update that “provides factual information in response to the various reasons that have since been offered for the proposed change" of FOI laws in Ont...

The Clean Growth Hub, which helped cleantech businesses grow, is winding down this spring, despite attempts by some federal departments to find funding for it, briefing notes reveal.

Canada’s National Observer analyzed the locations of 38 data centre campuses proposed in the province, and found that three quarters of them are in regions where water use is already in shorter supply...

Building climate-resilient communities requires more investment in Canada’s local news outlets while facing the reality that social media platforms are more unpredictable than ever.

On Friday, Ontario announced that the province plans to exempt the premier, cabinet ministers, parliamentary assistants and their offices from requests filed under the Freedom of Information and Prote...

The Greenbelt scandal, the Skills Development controversy and more were all revealed through freedom of information requests.

Every national party except the Greens chose on Thursday to grant themselves an indefinite exemption from laws protecting the privacy of Canadians, rejecting Senate concerns about Bill C-4.

You can sign up right now to access our ever-growing database covering hundreds of Canadian municipalities, no subscription required. Search 59,000 hours and counting of transcribed public meetings, a...

The leader of the Conservative Party of Canada is rolling out a kinder and gentler version of himself. But can he stick to the script, or will he revert to his political instincts?

At a time when civilization is hurtling toward irreversible climate breakdown, to overlook the climate consequences of three of the deadliest militaries on Earth going to war would be journalistic mal...

The Public Health Agency of Canada has a broad mandate from emergency response to research, and increasingly climate change is threatening its operations.

Canada’s National Observer found and drew from multiple sources to put together a map of planned data centres in Ontario, and found at least 15 projects with a combined capacity of 2,202 MW currently ...

A new app gets around bot bans by recruiting real people to post political messages generated by AI.

The decision comes after Canada's National Observer determined a producer listed on the film's trailer credits — Simon Hergott — has published several videos and comments on his public YouTube channel...

Climate hazards like flooding, storms, permafrost melt and coastal erosion are increasingly threatening nation defence infrastructure and operations, while complicating the management of its contamina...

The Trump administration has made it clear that it will use almost everything at its disposal in its broader war on the truth. If we're not careful here in Canada, we'll become one of its casualties.

Privy Council Office and info commissioner increasingly at odds

His speech in Davos might be the most important one ever delivered by a Canadian prime minister. Its consequences will determine his place in history — and ours.

A 1988 agreement between Canada and the United States about the sea lane left its legal status largely undecided, allowing both countries to assert their respective positions. But now, thanks to US Pr...

Donald Trump is threatening to invade Greenland, and Canada might be next. It's time to look around and figure out who would fight back — and who would surrender.

Canada’s “new relationship” with China marks the return of realpolitik.

The ever-improving economics of technologies like wind, solar, EVs, and battery storage have become insurmountable — and, for countries in the developing world, irresistible.

The reporter, Hannah Natanson, covers the federal workforce and has been part of The Post’s most sensitive coverage of the first year of the second Trump administration.

With Twitter, the medium really is the message — one that should be clearly unacceptable for our elected officials and political leaders.

In 2025, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government began building the architecture to develop major projects, but 2026 is when the rubber meets the road. Here’s what the provinces and territories want t...

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A remote Cree community on the shores of James Bay has declared a state of emergency after its water treatment plant failed this week — a crisis residents say the federal government is responding to f...

“It's like the Trump administration promoting Biden in an ad campaign,” said Ahmed Al-Rawi, Director of the Disinformation Project at Simon Fraser University. “This is unreal, like science fiction.”

Any global crisis will have the fossil fuel industry and its allies pushing more oil and gas, but nothing about the US's takeover of Venezuela changes the long term forecast for oil demand or the clim...

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is already juggling multiple emergencies and costly climate change impacts and says another foreign animal disease outbreak like foot-and-mouth disease could push i...

The city is investing $94 million into projects that “apply a climate lens” in the city, but advocates insist that more is urgently needed.

The platform's own chatbot started posting sexualized material of children and other people who couldn't consent. With no moral bottom in sight, it's well past time our officials found other ways to c...

As editor-in-chief, I believe you have a right to know how we’ve spent your dollars. But how to quantify impact when so much of what we do happens inside the minds of the people we reach?

Youth representation in decision-making spaces holds politicians and policymakers accountable for the generational impacts of their choices.

This method has become popular globally, with different organizations worldwide vouching for its effectiveness, especially as they can grow 10 times faster than normal plantings. The method employs de...

This method has become popular globally, with different organizations worldwide vouching for its effectiveness, especially as they can grow 10 times faster than normal plantings. The method employs de...

Scott Macdonald is Carleton University’s director of energy and sustainability. His work and open-mindedness have helped the school become increasingly sustainable and push for a net-zero goal.

Fewer Canadians bothering to file access-to-information requests