Brenna Owen
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News, Energy, Politics
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April 1st 2019
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government has been considering an “emergency” warning from scientists about an endangered species for more than a year in a case that could have serious implications for the proposed construction of the Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion project.
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Canada is heating up at double the average rate of the planet, according to a stunning peer-reviewed scientific report involving dozens of government and academic authors, and it is likely that the majority of this warming was caused by human activities like burning fossil fuels.
Carl Meyer
News
| April 1st 2019
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From Kenora to Oxford to Ottawa and Toronto, members of the Progressive Conservative provincial government of Doug Ford posted photographs of themselves at gas stations warning drivers to fill up their tanks before a carbon tax kicks in. They failed to recognize federal rebates to taxpayers.
Morgan Sharp, Fatima Syed
News, Politics
| April 1st 2019
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Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna has announced a new public consultation asking all Canadians what they believe the definition of “fossil fuel subsidy” should be.
Carl Meyer
News, Energy, Politics
| April 1st 2019
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The Ontario government is increasing energy bills, air pollution, health impacts and greenhouse gas commissions through policies that promote the use of fossil fuels, says the province's environmental commissioner, Dianne Saxe, in her final report released on March 27, 2019.
Fatima Syed
News, Energy, Politics
| March 27th 2019
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"When I'm not being hopeful for the young people, I cannot stop thinking that it will be so hard if they become invisible again,” said outgoing child advocate Irwin Elman. “That was the tip of the iceberg for me: that nobody really realizes the number of children and youth connected in some way to child welfare care who die without our knowledge...all because we don't listen to them."
Fatima Syed
News, Politics
| April 1st 2019
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“Believe me, the entire department knows that you want this information.” Then why, wonders Greg McGillis of the Public Service Alliance of Canada, hasn't the information been supplied despite an array of letters, calls and Access to Information requests?
Greg McGillis
Opinion, Politics
| April 1st 2019
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The estranged wife of Joshua Boyle told a harrowing tale of alleged confinement, abuse and non-consensual sex on Friday, March 29, 2019, as she described how he struck her, tied her ankles and wrists with rope and forced himself on her during an incident after the couple returned to Canada from a five-year ordeal as hostages in Afghanistan.
Andy Blatchford
News, Politics
| April 2nd 2019
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The federal government is defending its refusal to disclose the contents of a 60-page memo the country's top bureaucrat sent to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about Vice-Admiral Mark Norman.
Lee Berthiaume
News, Politics
| April 2nd 2019
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo and fellow Democrats who control the Legislature have reached a deal to make New York the third state with a ban on single-use plastic grocery bags as they worked to finalize budget agreements, officials said on Friday, March 29, 2019.
Associated Press
News, Politics
| April 2nd 2019
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Last September, Hans Laroche embarked on an unusual teaching assignment. He and a few thousand fellow Quebecers were enlisted to help Amazon's virtual assistant Alexa learn the finer points of Canadian French, from the distinctive accent to so-called "joual" expressions and the linguistic mishmash known as "Franglais."
Morgan Lowrie
News, Politics
| April 2nd 2019
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