Lindsay Jones
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News, Energy, Politics
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March 26th 2019
An Alberta oilpatch company met with federal officials 22 times last year to lobby them about major fossil fuel projects. Ottawa is now drafting rules to specifically allow the company, AltaGas, to dump saltwater into a major Nova Scotia river.
P.E.I. Premier Wade MacLauchlan called an early election on Tuesday, March 26, 2019, night, announcing an April 23 vote that polls suggest could produce Canada's first Green Party government.
One risk to Canada’s economy that did not receive a single mention in the Bank of Canada governor's year-end speech: climate change. Kevin Quinlan notes that central banks in other countries are taking up their leadership role on this while the Bank of Canada barely mentions the subject.
The climate emergency exploded onto the headlines in 2018, with a relentless series of disasters leading up to the UN COP 24 climate conference in December. But the people cutting climate pollution by creating delightful urban spaces on an unprecedented scale should be headline news in 2019.
Canada's small business operators say they are not ready for the carbon tax to kick in next week — particularly since the federal government has still not told them how they will be compensated for the cost.
A seaplane company in British Columbia says it is partnering with an electric propulsion firm with the goal of becoming the world's first all-electric airline.
Leaked reports about a dispute between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould over a Supreme Court appointment drew condemnation from bar associations and MPs of all parties on Tuesday, March 26, 2019, as the controversy surrounding the SNC-Lavalin affair raged on.
Former Afghanistan hostage Joshua Boyle made a frantic, late-night 911 call in December 2017 to say his wife Caitlan Coleman had run screaming from their Ottawa apartment, threatening to kill herself.
Premier Francois Legault invoked Quebecers' values, language and distinctiveness on Tuesday, March 26, 2019, to justify shielding from court challenge upcoming legislation that will restrict the wearing of religious symbols.
The federal New Democrats' fiscal plan for the fall election will be shaped by estimates of how much money Ottawa loses out on each year to international tax-avoidance schemes, the party's finance critic says.
