Canadian MPs are back in the capital and kicked off day one by digging into the climate and financial impacts of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion (TMX).
Over five committee meetings in coming weeks, federal ministers, experts and interest groups will testify about TMX’s impact on Canada’s climate targets, how the cost to taxpayers soared, and government plans to sell TMX.
The proportion of Canadian business leaders who say they are worried about climate change jumped dramatically in 2024.
In a newly released report by Deloitte, 85 per cent of the 129 Canadian executives surveyed between May and June of this year said they "worry all or most of the time" about climate change.
That's a sharp increase from the 59 per cent who said they worried all or most of the time in 2023.
“When a politician is in opposition, he is an expert on the means to some end, and when he is in office, he is an expert on the obstacles to it.” – G.K. Chesterton
+ The title of this column comes from Jean-Paul Sartre’s diary of the first eight months of World War II, when he was stationed in Alsace, working as a meteorologist, watching weather balloons and recording barometric pressure, while waiting for something, anything, profound to happen.