Canada

02/12/20
Author: 
Amanda Follett Hosgood
Work camps like this one at the LNG project in Kitimat should be shut down to protect Indigenous communities from COVID-19 risks, say Wet’suwet’en chiefs. Photo from LNG Canada.

Dec. 1, 2020

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.

01/12/20
Author: 
Brent Jolly
Ask journalists — like the ones gathered at this Canadian Association of Journalists convention — and they’ll tell you the problems revealed in a recent information commissioner’s report are the norm, rather than the exception. Photo by Shannon VanRaes

December 1st 2020

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.

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01/12/20
Author: 
Yadullah Hussain
Is oil turning into a sunset industry?

Dec. 1, 2020

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.

01/12/20
Author: 
Carl Meyer
Members of 450 Tactical Helicopter Squadron fly over Toronto for Remembrance Day. Photo by aviator Lanny Jellicoe / Garrison Petawawa Imaging

November 30th 2020

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.

The government released an inventory of federal greenhouse gas emissions from its facilities and fleet operations as part of its updated “greening government strategy.”

01/12/20
Author: 
Tess Kalinowski
Rechev Brown

Mon., Nov. 30, 2020

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.

 

“It’s way cheaper for us this way,” he said.

01/12/20
Author: 
Geoff Dembicki
Experts in Canada and beyond see overlapping solutions to two crises: housing affordability and climate change. This series talks to more than 20 of them. Illustration for The Tyee by Nora Kelly.

Nov. 30, 2020

First in a five-part series exploring the case for a Green New Deal for Housing.

28/11/20
Author: 
Andrew Nikiforuk
‘The reality is that pandemics don’t stop on a dime, vaccines can’t be rushed and their safe delivery is quite complicated.’ Photo by Joshua Berson.
Nov. 26, 2020
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.
27/11/20
Author: 
Carl Meyer
Suncor oilsands plant, featuring petroleum coker towers, in 2010. Suncor has proposed replacing its coke boilers with natural gas in order to cut emissions, but has suspended the project and is now asking for government support. Photo from Suncor

Nov. 27, 2020

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.

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