Ottawa Insider

A year after Chantel Moore was killed by police in Edmundston, N.B., the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council and Green Party are calling for action.

Following pressure from Indigenous and climate activists, Trans Mountain insurer Argo Group is slashing ties with the Crown corporation.

The Liberal government’s claims that Canada has turned the corner on rising greenhouse gas emissions are drawing fire from opposition leaders who remain unconvinced.

“Now we can really start this conversation and ask: How many more bodies are out there? How many more children haven't gotten home yet?” says NDP MP Mumilaaq Qaqqaq.

Canada has had the highest emission growth of its peers since the Paris Agreement was signed, according to a new report.

The Department of Fisheries and Oceans has decided to increase the annual Atlantic cod quota despite stocks remaining critically low for three decades, a move Oceana Canada is calling “a recipe for disaster.”

“Is this an ideological reason, that people didn’t want to vote on the Greens (amendment) but are ready to vote on the government’s? I’m wondering,” said Bloc Québécois MP Monique Pauzé.

There are now fewer than 366 right whales left in the world, according to researchers, and there have been 21 known right whale deaths in Canadian waters between 2017 and 2020.

“Canada has one of the most emissions-intensive economies in the world,” and achieving net zero by 2050 will “require a major transformation of Canada’s energy system, including a deep decarbonization of energy production and use,” wrote a senior bureaucrat in a memo to the deputy minister.

“If we are to talk about economics in general, I think we can’t hide the fact that there is huge divestment happening from the fossil fuel sector,” says David Suzuki Foundation director general for Quebec and Atlantic Canada, Sabaa Khan.

The Alberta government is rebuffing an influential International Energy Agency plan to reach net-zero carbon pollution as an “unreasonable” and “unfeasible” proposal “driven by activists.”

The federal government is going on a hiring spree to recruit and train up to 2,000 people as energy advisers to support green home renovation programs this summer.

Avi Lewis is expected to be acclaimed as the NDP candidate for the riding of West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country during a campaign launch scheduled for Saturday.

“We're finding that (methane) emissions are at least 1.5 times higher than what's currently being reported in official inventory reports,” says Katlyn MacKay, lead author of a recent study.

The fund is the latest addition to the Low Carbon Cities Canada network run by the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, joining cities like Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal.