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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s symbolic motion calling for more carbon tax carveouts was defeated, but this won’t end the polarizing debate that centres on equity.

For the most part, opposition politicians and provincial governments have focused their attention on pushing for more carbon price carveouts, calling the Liberals’ three-year exemption on heating oil unfair to the rest of Canadians.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Sid Shniad: ‘This Must Stop’

07/11/23

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Amanda Follett Hosgood

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The Tyee

Pro-Palestine demonstrators protest in front of Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland’s office in Toronto on Oct. 30. Photo by Christopher Katsarov, the Canadian Press.

Nov. 7, 2023

A founding member of Independent Jewish Voices on Zionism, antisemitism and the need for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. A Tyee Q&A.

It’s been one month since violence erupted in the Middle East.

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Another massive LNG plant on the West Coast?

06/11/23

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Wilderness Committee

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Wilderness Committee

Another massive LNG plant on the West Coast?

Nov. 6, 2023

Ksi Lisims LNG is a proposal in Nisga’a territory to liquefy almost as much gas as LNG Canada. Although the proponent wants to use hydroelectricity to do so, that will only happen if BC Hydro — and its ratepayers — build it a brand new transmission line. Even then, the fracking required to fill it will make the facility among the province’s worst polluters.

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Striking Seaway Workers Showed The Power Of ‘Essential’ Labour

06/11/23

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Adam D.K. King

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The Maple

Nov. 6, 2023

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Bad guys and bombs: The nuclear risks of small modular reactors

05/11/23

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John Woodside

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National Observer

Nov. 3, 2023

Nuclear proliferation experts are warning that 50 years of policy designed to limit the spread of nuclear weapons is unravelling as governments invest in certain small modular reactors that could be misused to build bombs.

The concerns are aimed at Moltex, a Saint John, N.B., nuclear startup building small modular reactors (SMRs) that will be powered with spent fuel from CANDU reactors. To make the fuel, Moltex plans to separate plutonium from uranium in CANDU waste and use the extracted plutonium to power new SMRs.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Missing Paris Goal Could Cost CANADA $5.5 Trillion

04/11/23

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John Woodside

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National Observer

Mark Carney speaks at the Fall 2023 Net-Zero Leadership Summit in Ottawa on Oct. 31, 2023. Photo via Carney/X(Twitter)

Nov. 2, 2023

It’s estimated that the Canadian economy could take a $5.5-trillion hit by the end of the century due to climate change, according to a white paper from Independent Sen. Rosa Galvez’s office published this week as sustainable finance experts and policymakers descended on Ottawa for a high-level conference Wednesday.

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