Former Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau once said that the Canada-US relationship resembled a mouse sleeping with an elephant: “No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.” — Quote from Jonathan Malloy, Inside Story, 13 July, 2018.
Fossil fuel companies are influencing what Canadian students learn about climate change, funding and supplying educational materials that frame the issue to serve their interests, health and climate advocates warn in a new report.
The Canadian public is souring on the U.S. as Trump wields trade threats as an “economic force” to drive home his message that Canada should become the 51st state.
Opposition parties are calling for “full transparency” from the federal government about its financial commitments to the Trans Mountain expansion project, following revelations of a $20-billion refinancing loan offered to the beleaguered company.
Clean water, food security, and healthy communities are how we will outlast Trump
Some B.C. politicians are using the trade war threat posed by President Donald Trump to push for no-holds-barred resource extraction on First Nations lands.
I write this as I sit in Karachi, Pakistan, after deportation from Canada because of my nonviolent activism on the climate crisis. My activism, and that of my Canadian wife, Sophie, is on hold as we chart our course through a life in exile and hope for reunification in Canada.
The Canadian government has approved a new $20-billion loan to finance the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline two years after the government said it would not provide further money for the project.
The loan to the pipeline project, known as TMX, was provided through Export Development Canada’s Canada Account, which supports transactions when the Crown corporation is unable to back a project because of a combination of financial and market risks.
