Tracy Sherlock
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News, Energy
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November 20th 2018
By 2040, all cars sold in B.C. will be clean energy vehicles, the province pledged today. Premier John Horgan announced a clean energy vehicle mandate,
In Toronto, Doug Ford's government was calling on Ottawa to focus on jobs. In Ottawa, representatives from a large trade association were asking why Toronto was killing a popular job-supporting program.
Environmentalists are outraged by a "preposterous" large sewage dump into the St. Lawrence River near Montreal and a "staggering" number of smaller, chronic sewage overflows throughout the year in Quebec.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford's recent decision to cancel plans for a new French university and slash the French-language commissioner position in the province has outraged Franco-Ontarians, writes Toula Drimonis.
In the wake of Ontario Premier Doug Ford's decision to cancel francophone services in the province, Federal Tourism and Official Languages Minister Mélanie Joly said "I think Mr. Ford needs a history lesson about bilingualism and the linguistic duality of the country. I invite him to look at history books.”
Victoria-based author Esi Edugyan says her second time winning the $100,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize for her latest novel "Washington Black" felt all the more meaningful amid a climate in which truth is "under siege."
Canada will use the upcoming G20 summit to push for answers in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says.
A dead whale that washed ashore in eastern Indonesia had a large lump of plastic waste in its stomach, including drinking cups and flip-flops, a park official said Tuesday, causing concern among environmentalists and government officials in one of the world's largest plastic polluting countries.
