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“We sometimes get obsessed with the absolute number. We should be thinking about the quality and types of jobs that end up coming into a Canadian environment," says Stewart Beck, head of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.

Environment and Climate Change Minister Jonathan Wilkinson’s comments come as the Parliamentary Budget Office releases its latest estimates on the federal carbon tax.

Newly elected Green party Leader Annamie Paul is putting the brakes on any speculation of Green-NDP co-operation in the future. “When it comes to the next election, I think it’s going to be a very clear choice and differentiation between our two parties," she says.

“You get to a point where you say, 'We do not have the conditions for a free and fair and democratic election,'" says the new Green leader.

Chief science adviser Mona Nemer talks to Canada's National Observer about how her work changed dramatically with the pandemic and why it is important to continue paying for fundamental science to prepare for the next crisis.

Industry leaders also said the Canadian playing field has become more level after Alberta and Ontario ended government rebates on solar energy upgrades.

Clean tech advocates say there’s more to the story, in particular when it comes to the potential for manufacturing, like a recent deal to produce electric vehicles in Ontario.

B.C. has a high rate of death per 100,000 population related to illicit drugs including opioids, compared to other parts of the country from January 2016 to March 2020.

“When will the Liberals work with the provinces to help addicts obtain treatment? ... I am not talking about just some nice words buried in this throne speech," said Pitt Meadows-Maple Ridge Conservative MP Marc Dalton.

The non-profit Wilderness Committee says the pipeline company’s own maps and sworn affidavits indicate that it failed to start key construction this summer. And that could push the project past its December 2022 delivery date.

The University of Victoria's Nathan Lachowsky wants to measure SARS-CoV-2 in the #LGBTQ community, looking for reasons behind the pandemic's disproportionate impact on sexual and gender minority people.

Though the party wouldn't divulge details of what led to Haddad's expulsion and reinstatement, the Montreal lawyer said she was kicked out of the leadership race after criticizing the B.C. Green Party. She posted screenshots on Twitter of apparent email exchanges with party leadership, who said she had “discredited” the Green brand.

Several First Nations asked the Supreme Court of Canada on Wednesday to look beyond intergovernmental clashes over the carbon tax, and recognize that the climate crisis infringes on treaty rights.

Though Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised an “ambitious green agenda” last month, the speech delivered by Gov. Gen. Julie Payette on Wednesday focused more on how the government will manage the pandemic and the economic hardship it has caused.

Montreal lawyer Meryam Haddad said she will appeal after she was kicked out of the race days before online voting was due to begin in the race to succeed Elizabeth May.