| Environment and Climate Change Canada | backgrounders
On October 2, 2026, the Honourable Julie Dabrusin, Minister of the Environment, Climate Change and Nature, announced funding for projects under the Community Efficiency Financing initiative and the Sustainable Affordable Housing initiative.
| Environment and Climate Change Canada | news releases
Today, the Honourable Julie Dabrusin, Minister of the Environment, Climate Change and Nature, alongside Jennifer McKelvie, Member of Parliament for Ajax and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Housing and Infrastructure, announced support through the Green Municipal Fund’s Community Efficiency Financing and Sustainable Affordable Housing initiatives for 162 projects across Canada that will help people access home energy retrofit financing and build more energy-efficient, affordable, and resilient homes
| Environment and Climate Change Canada | news releases
For more than 30 years, Canada and China have worked together on the environment. This week, Canada’s Minister of the Environment, Climate Change and Nature, the Honourable Julie Dabrusin, led Canada’s delegation to the Annual General Meeting of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED), which took place in Beijing, China, from September 27 to 29, 2026.
| Environment and Climate Change Canada | media advisories
Media representatives are advised that the Honourable Julie Dabrusin, Minister of the Environment, Climate Change and Nature, will make an announcement regarding support for home energy retrofit projects across Canada.
| Environment and Climate Change Canada | news releases
Last week, more than 1,000 participants from across Canada gathered in Toronto for the 2026 edition of the Adaptation Canada conference.
| Environment and Climate Change Canada | news releases
Today, the Honourable Julie Dabrusin, Minister of the Environment, Climate Change and Nature, announced that the Government of Canada is exploring a policy framework to trade internationally transferred mitigation outcomes (ITMOs), which could allow Canadian companies to participate in international carbon markets catalyzing further investment in climate mitigation activities, including deployment of carbon removal technologies and nature based solutions.
| Environment and Climate Change Canada | news releases
Today, Wade Grant, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, announced that the Government of Canada will invest $2.6 million to Birds Canada over five years to support a wide range of monitoring and conservation programs for migratory birds, including species at risk.
| Environment and Climate Change Canada | media advisories
Media representatives are advised that Wade Grant, Parliamentary Secretary (PS) to the Minister of the Environment, Climate Change and Nature, will announce funding for migratory bird conservation. PS Grant will be joined by Patrick Nadeau, President and Chief Executive Officer of Birds Canada.
| Environment and Climate Change Canada | news releases
On September 14, 2026, the company Charles-Auguste Fortier Inc. was fined $75,000 by the Court of Québec. The excavation company pleaded guilty to one count of violating the Species at Risk Act
| Environment and Climate Change Canada | news releases
On September 10, 2026 at the Ontario Court of Justice, Algoma Steel Inc. was fined $1.2 million after pleading guilty to one count under subsection 36(3) of the Fisheries Act, and one count under subsection 5.1(1) of the Migratory Birds Convention Act, 1994.
