Canadian lentils are exposing simmering tensions between Carney's European trade ambitions and his government's proposal to eliminate a key part of Canada's pesticide risk assessment, observers say.
The federal government’s expert body mandated to provide it with independent advice to reach net-zero emissions is collapsing following Prime Minister Mark Carney’s pipeline agreement with Alberta. Two prominent members of the body, including its chair, have resigned this week, citing a lack of influence over a government that’s increasingly pulling back on climate action.
Carney ‘Will Have To Answer’ Questions About Flip-Flop on Tax Credit, Liberal MP Says
A British Columbia Liberal MP said Wednesday Prime Minister Mark Carney “will have to answer” questions on why he reversed a budget commitment on tax credits for a controversial and self-defeating form of carbon capture and storage when he signed the Alberta energy deal.
The case’s outcome could affect the founders’ criminal charges, and Canadian drug laws. A Tyee explainer.
Drug User Liberation Front founders Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum are back in court arguing their compassion club members’ constitutional rights were violated by part of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.
The government will also continue funding some pandemic wage increases.
A Hospital Employees’ Union official said Monday that an agreement with the British Columbia government to bring some 5,000 workers at 100 care homes back into the sector’s main bargaining unit is a win for the union and seniors.
These heroes were largely created by settler-controlled industries such as publishing, media and academia. Not by us.
Years ago, when I first began researching Indigenous identity theft — something that intrigued me intellectually and impacted me personally — I remember trying to explain it to my Indigenous family members back home in northwestern Ontario.
