Elizabeth McSheffrey
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News, Energy, Politics
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December 12th 2017
Environment and Climate Change Canada says the federal government will not alter a joint statement with China whose wording suggests that natural gas is not a fossil fuel.
The Trudeau government won't buy equipment from military suppliers "responsible for harming Canada's economic interests," even when that harm was caused by unrelated business activity, ministers declared Dec. 12.
Two years after the historic Paris Agreement, world leaders and business officials gathered in France to find financial solutions in the fight against climate change. Among the major announcements of the day, the World Bank said it would no longer finance upstream oil and gas projects after 2019.
There are dead-end conversations. Then there's the image of Justin Trudeau quibbling about the Canada-U.S. trade deficit with U.S. President Donald Trump, who recently revealed some backroom bickering between the two about which country buys more imports from the other.
Ontario’s Opposition leader is brushing off a defamation lawsuit the premier has launched against him as a political stunt — increasing the likelihood the dispute will drag on through the June election.
Uber Canada said late Monday that 815,000 Canadian riders and drivers may have been affected as part of its worldwide data breach announced in November. The disclosure came the same day the federal privacy commissioner said it had opened a formal investigation into the data breach, which saw the theft of information from some 57 million Uber accounts globally in October, 2016.
Officials with the U.S government say it's time to consider the possibility that endangered right whales could become extinct unless new steps are taken to protect them.
