Marc Fawcett-Atkinson

Field crews at the federal agricultural research station in Swift Current, Sask., have destroyed Canada's only public organic research plots and are planning to plant the fields with non-organic wheat seed.

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

In a video interview released Wednesday with right-wing outlet Juno News, Kerry-Lynne Findlay, the new leader of the Conservative Party of BC, she said the right-wing persona she presented during the campaign was what voters should expect going forward.

In its most recent drought assessment bulletin, published on June 4, the BC government warned that many reservoirs in the region won't fill to their normal levels this year because of the unusually low snowpack. The Okanagan is already at BC's highest drought level, forcing farmers to restrict their irrigation water usage while municipalities will likely struggle to maintain water supplies.

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.

While conspiracy theories about 15-minute cities can be easily dismissed, 'some of them are really wild,' said Simon Joss, a professor of sustainable urbanism at the University of Glasgow. But it's important to try to understand how the conspiracies arose and how to mitigate their impact.

The federal pesticide regulator weakened a key pesticide safety rule weeks before heading to court over allegations it was allowing companies to withhold important health information from farmworkers.

June 22nd 2026 Share this article Alberta Premier Danielle Smith takes questions from reporters on Friday, May 22, 2026.

"It's like scattering millions of toys with unsafe lead levels across the places where children play and over an agricultural community" he said. "I want to know what are the lead levels in the soil that is growing blueberries and the cranberries."

“There doesn't seem to be a very good accountability mechanism here,” said Victoria resident and frequent police critic Stephen Harrison, who obtained the documents. “Literally nobody other than the individual officer has access — you wouldn't even know that they're using it.”