Former Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau once said that the Canada-US relationship resembled a mouse sleeping with an elephant: “No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.” — Quote from Jonathan Malloy, Inside Story, 13 July, 2018.
A federal judge’s decision on a Quebec nuclear waste facility has set a new precedent for what consultation with First Nations should look like, raising the standard for projects across Canada.
Fossil fuel companies are influencing what Canadian students learn about climate change, funding and supplying educational materials that frame the issue to serve their interests, health and climate advocates warn in a new report.
Website editor: Here in a nutshell is the problem: "....tackle the climate crisis by financing public goods instead of offering incentives to private firms."
The Canadian public is souring on the U.S. as Trump wields trade threats as an “economic force” to drive home his message that Canada should become the 51st state.
Clean water, food security, and healthy communities are how we will outlast Trump
Some B.C. politicians are using the trade war threat posed by President Donald Trump to push for no-holds-barred resource extraction on First Nations lands.
B.C.’s new industrial carbon pricing system gives big emitters a break on paying for emissions. That includes most new LNG export projects
When LNG Canada becomes fully operational this year, the liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility in Kitimat, B.C., will be one of the largest sources of emissions in the province — but it likely won’t pay a cent for its carbon pollution for two full years.
