Premier Doug Ford’s government moved to slash several key provincial watchdogs on Thursday, making the case that less oversight was producing savings in its efforts to balance Ontario’s finances.
The White Pines Wind Project was a decade in the making, pitting neighbour against neighbour in the southern township of Prince Edward County. It all took only two weeks to unravel with newly-minted Premier Doug Ford at the helm of the Ontario government.
At the end of October, Canadian plug-in EV sales broke through the symbolic threshold of two per cent of new cars sold (2.2%), more than doubling the 0.9 per cent in 2017. This is ahead of their 1.9 per cent market share in the United States so far this year.
The federal and B.C. governments announced a $14 million conservation investment. People protested the federal government's support for pipelines at the event.
A major Calgary-based energy company is facing its fourth lawsuit in U.S. courts over climate change. The Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations — the largest commercial fishermen’s group on the West Coast — has included Encana in a lawsuit attempting to link greenhouse gas emissions from 30 energy companies to damage in the crab fishery.
Canada might follow a U.S. decision to put personal sanctions on Saudi Arabian officials allegedly involved in killing journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey last month, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says.
Canada stood firm against Chinese criticism on Thursday, November 15, 2018, after the Trudeau government rallied more than a dozen countries in expressing concern to Beijing about its jailing of hundreds of thousands of its Muslim minority.
Canadian Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says his support for Britain's departure from the European Union is undiminished, despite the chaos Brexit has sown in British politics.
Talented people who immigrate to Canada don't necessarily abandon their home countries, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told students in Singapore on Thursday, November 15, 2018, when he had to defend the consequences of this country's efforts to draw the best and the brightest from overseas.
