Jim Bronskill, Canada's National Observer
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News, Energy, Politics
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December 1st 2017
The unanimous high court ruling Friday is likely to have a profound impact on resource development and ecological protection in the Peel Watershed, which covers an area the size of Ireland.
British Columbia says the federal government needs to back off and stop interfering in an independent review process over the approval of Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline.
"Consistent with its past practices, KED (Koch Equity Development) will be a silent and passive investor," Slusark said. But they could potentially get observer rights if Meredith failed to pay them dividends.
The broadsides on articles linking the Koch brothers to Canada might have had another purpose: to direct prying eyes away from their company’s history in this country.
The trash fire that is the National Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Inquiry (MMIWGI) shows no sign of maturing into a functional entity.
A slender girl with a solemn demeanour, Tahera was only nine when a trafficker came to her parents in the Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar in southern Bangladesh.
When federal Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr and Alberta Premier Rachel Notley came to Vancouver to speak about energy and pipelines on Thursday, views ranged from vehemently critical to glowing, reflecting controversy over projects like Kinder Morgan's proposed Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.
A Superior Court justice on Friday, December 1, 2017, ordered a temporary stay on the provision of a controversial Quebec law that prohibits citizens from receiving or giving public services with their faces covered.
For years, amid troubling emission data and oil facility failures, they debated whether to share this information with the public. In the end, it was not shared. Until we published it.
