In this week’s issue of our environmental newsletter, we hear ideas about why misinformation spreads during climate disasters and how to stop it, tally up the biggest years for insurance claims in Canada, and meet an artist who invented a new way of carving totem poles to save old growth trees.

Chrystia Freeland says as prime minister, she would have the country can reach its NATO defence spending goal by 2027 — five years ahead of the federal government’s stated plan.

The alleged incidents, dating back to 2022, involved children aged two to six years old, police say.

Irv Gotti, the music producer who co-founded hip-hop label Murder, Inc., and signed stars such as Ja Rule, Ashanti and Lloyd, has died. He was 54.

Local law enforcement say the heist could be linked to the sky-high cost of eggs — an issue which has been plaguing the U.S. in the midst of an avian flu outbreak.

Former Canadian Human Rights commissioner Birju Dattani is suing Conservative MP Melissa Lantsman, accusing her and others of leading a ‘strategic, deliberate and malicious’ campaign against him.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will not attend an upcoming G20 meeting in South Africa, he said on Wednesday, days after President Donald Trump threatened to cut off funding to the African country.