Mike De Souza
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News, Energy, Politics
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November 23rd 2016
A Calgary-based employee of Irving Oil, a major player in the proposed Energy East pipeline project, sent an email invitation directly to Steven Kelly, an NEB member who also faced controversy.
The National Energy Board's chief executive gave staff a list of seven instructions after private meetings with former Quebec premier Jean Charest and others.
The top NEB bureaucrat joked at a staff meeting, after the botched hearings, about whether the regulator’s employees should be armed with tasers when approaching critics at public hearings.
“It’s the ‘same old, same old’ with the U.S. government,” said LaDonna Brave Bull Allard from the Standing Rock Sioux. “We’ve been fighting them ever since they stepped onto our country.”
In a strange interview with the New York Times, U.S. Presidential-elect Donald Trump appeared to retreat on key pledges to jail Hillary Clinton and pull out of the Paris climate change treaty.
Van Jones, says the "hate wave" that has stirred vigilante behaviour and prompted gatherings of apparent Nazi-affiliated groups is playing out in all Western democracies
New changes don't include replacing Canada's first-past-the-post voting system, raising suspicions that the Trudeau government intends to keep it unchanged.
Just after U.S. president-elect Donald Trump denounces the Pacific Rim trade deal, Canada's trade minister decried the rise of "ugly" partisan politics and anti-globalization forces
It’s not often that I remember the number of a Parliamentary Bill. Bill C-38 is an exception – and most Canadians who care about nature, democracy and Indigenous rights will know this number too.
