Female chiefs say COVID-19 risk means work on oil and gas projects shouldn’t be classed as an essential service.
Members of the Wet’suwet’en Nation are calling on B.C.’s public health officer to shut down work camps operating on their territory as COVID-19 numbers rise in northern B.C.
Once upon a time, a government-in-waiting promised voters that, should it be elected, it would run the most open and transparent government in history.
Raise your hand if you’ve heard this story before.
Indeed, making commitments to trumpet transparency in government has become such a de rigueur comment these days, it’s actually more surprising when a politician, regardless of their political stripes, doesn’t raise it as an argument to support their candidacy for public office.
Imperial Oil just became the most high-profile Canadian oil producer to give up on some of its fossil fuel assets in Alberta.
“Imperial has re-assessed the long-term development plans of its unconventional portfolio in Alberta, Canada and no longer plans to develop a significant portion of this portfolio,” the company said in a statement after markets closed on Monday.
The company said would take an impairment charge of about $900 million to $1.2 billion in the latest quarter.
The Department of National Defence was responsible for the lion’s share of the federal government’s own carbon pollution last year, according to newly released figures.
Grocery clerk Rechev Browne is a pandemic hero, an essential worker who can’t afford to live in the city he serves.
He earns about $44,000 a year at an Etobicoke store.
Last December, Browne, 34, decided he could no longer afford to pay $1,150 a month to share a house with three other people. So he has moved back in with his mom in a two-bedroom apartment near Keele St. and Wilson Ave.
News that three different vaccines with high rates of efficacy in preventing COVID-19 are on their way has raised hopes. We can all use some cheerful news right about now. But the best medical evidence suggests we should temper our optimism.
Don’t throw away that mask or expect a short sprint to a world free of the pandemic, say experts. Nor will the vaccination of the Canadian general public really begin in earnest till the summer of 2021.
The oil and gas industry “likely won’t meaningfully reduce” its carbon pollution this decade without more government funding, according to a new Royal Bank of Canada report.
