Canada

28/01/16
Author: 
Eric Doherty
Prime Minister Trudeau

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau marked the Paris climate agreement by committing to take on the "tough work that still needs to be accomplished both at home and around the world to implement the agreement." Part of that tough work will be re-orienting federal funding to stop making the climate crisis worse.

Given Trudeau's statements on the seriousness of the climate crisis, you might expect that the multi-billion dollar infrastructure program he ran on in the election would already be targeted to reduce carbon pollution. You would be wrong.

28/01/16
Author: 
ROBERT TUTTLE and JEREMY VAN LOON

A handful of anti-pipeline activists with lock cutters and the will to get arrested have become Canadian oil producers’ newest hurdle to delivering crude to markets.

28/01/16
Author: 
David Suzuki
David Suzuki

With the December Paris climate agreement, leaders and experts from around the world showed that they overwhelmingly accept that human-caused climate change is real and, because the world has continued to increase fossil fuel use, the need to curb and reduce emissions is urgent.

28/01/16
Author: 
Mike De Souza
stacks of pipes

Outdated computer systems, inaccurate information and confusion within Canada’s national pipeline regulator is putting public safety and the environment at risk, warns a new audit tabled in Parliament on Tuesday.

27/01/16
Author: 
Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois

I sometimes forget the degree to which a large part of English Canada despises Quebec. This week, the reminder was brutal.

27/01/16
Author: 
Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois

I sometimes forget the degree to which a large part of English Canada despises Quebec. This week, the reminder was brutal.

26/01/16
Author: 
Jillian Bell
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shakes hands with Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre following their joint press conference about the proposed Energy East pipeline in Montreal on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016. (Graham Hughes/Canadian Press)

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made headlines Tuesday when he met with Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre, an outspoken opponent of the proposed Energy East pipeline.

24/01/16
Author: 
BRENDAN JONES
Sockeye salmon in the Adams River in British Columbia, Canada. Photo: Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott/Minden Pictures
23/01/16
Author: 
Shawn McCarthy

[Website editor's note: This article is a useful summary of  provincial emission-reduction policies, or rather the lack thereof.]

Provincial premiers boast leadership in the country’s effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions, but achieving their own lofty ambitions will require political courage and aggressive policies to drive fundamental changes in the way Canadians produce and consume energy.

21/01/16
Author: 
Roger Annis

A leading columnist in Canada's Globe and Mail daily newspaper known in the past to voice concern about the global warming emergency has penned two columns recently in support of Alberta tar sands pipelines, including praising the efforts of the premier of Alberta to sell the construction of these project to an increasingly sceptical and wary public in Canada

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