Canada

03/03/16
Author: 
Joanna Smith

But the prime minister said that can’t mean abandoning the oil and gas sector — including plans to build more pipelines.

VANCOUVER—Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wants Canada to play a lead role in the global fight against climate change, but said that cannot mean abandoning the oil and gas sector — including plans to build more pipelines.

02/03/16
Author: 
Elizabeth McSheffrey
Green Party leader Elizabeth May calls on the federal Liberals to meet their climate action deadlines during the 2016 Globe Series in Vancouver, B.C. on Wed. March 2, 2016. Photo by Elizabeth McSheffrey.

Green Party leader Elizabeth May calls on the federal Liberals to meet their climate action deadlines during the 2016 Globe Series in Vancouver, B.C. on Wed. March 2, 2016. Photo by Elizabeth McSheffrey.

02/03/16
Author: 
CBC staff
Set on the fragile ice roads of the Northwest Territories, the History Channel reality TV show Ice Road Truckers has been watched by millions in the U.S. and around the world. However, the show has never aired on a Canadian network. ((History Television))

Sask. chiefs want prime minister, premiers to listen their climate change concerns

First Nations chiefs say climate change is softening a northern Saskatchewan ice road, leaving three reserves facing safety and access challenges. 

Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations (FSIN) Chief Bobby Cameron says this year's warmer-than-normal winter continues to threaten an ice road connecting three First Nations in northern Saskatchewan — Hatchet Lake First Nation, Black Lake First Nation and Fond du Lac Denesuline First Nation — to the south.

02/03/16
Author: 
Valentina Ruiz Leotaud
Hassan Yussuff and David Suzuki. Photo by Valentina Ruiz Leotaud.

The Liberal government needs to make strategic investments if Canada is going to meet the climate change goals the country announced at the Paris Conference of Parties COP 21.

02/03/16
Author: 
Elizabeth McSheffrey
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau opens the Globe Series 2016 in Vancouver, B.C. with a commitment to getting Canada's resources to market on Wed. March 2, 2016. Photo by Elizabeth McSheffrey.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau opens the Globe Series 2016 in Vancouver, B.C. with a commitment to getting Canada's resources to market on Wed. March 2, 2016. Photo by Elizabeth McSheffrey.


Steadfast in his commitment to getting Canadian oil to market, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said putting pipelines in the ground will pay for the country's transition to a greener future.

02/03/16
Author: 
SHAWN McCARTHY, IAN BAILEY ANDLES PERREAUX

The Quebec government has raised the regional tensions ahead of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s climate summit set to begin Wednesday by requesting an injunction against the controversial Energy East pipeline.

Quebec is asking the court to force TransCanada Corp. to comply with provincial law and submit the Energy East project for a provincial environmental assessment. Provincial Environment Minister David Heurtel said the government is not signalling its intention to block the pipeline, but merely insisting that TransCanada follow provincial law.

27/02/16
Author: 
BRUCE LIVESEY

[Webpage editor's note: The proposed Energy East pipeline would terminate at the Irving refinery and export terminal in St John, New Brunswick. Just one telling tidbit from this article: Property taxes on the Irving's oil-by-rail terminal are half those of the Tim Horton's across the street.]

 

The Irvings run New Brunswick like a hermit kingdom. But as the Energy East pipeline catapults the family onto the national stage, the timing is awkward. Now even the Irvings aren’t talking to the Irvings,

 

27/02/16
Author: 
SHAWN McCARTHY and JEFF LEWIS

Canada’s oil sands sector represents a crucial global supply to meet future crude demand, but only if producers can simultaneously drive down costs and slash greenhouse-gas emissions, the head of the influential International Energy Agency said Thursday.

21/02/16
Author: 
Ross Belot

We saw the delegates hugging each other as they walked out of the COP21 climate change talks in Paris back in December — but we had no idea what the agreement they reached meant for Canada.

Now we do. And it turns out Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall was quite right to be anxious about the future of our fossil fuel industry and Alberta Premier Rachel Notley may have been quite wrong in her assertion that Alberta will prosper — if she was talking about the oil and gas industry, at any rate.

17/02/16
Author: 
Michal Rozworski, Derrick O'Keefe
Bernie Sanders car

This is an odd time for those on the Canadian left who are used to Americans looking longingly north of the border. For now, as long as the Bernie Sanders campaign continues to mobilize thousands of new supporters each week, the tables have turned.

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