Carl Meyer
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News, Energy, Politics
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March 10th 2019
A task force appointed by the federal government recommends that Ottawa invest “well into the hundreds of millions of dollars” on long list of new programs, training and other solutions for coal workers as their jobs are phased out.
Imperial Oil Ltd. will not be charged for a Feb. 23, 2017, incident that saw huge flames shooting from its Sarnia refinery, which residents described as being “absolutely anxiety-inducing.”
A surge in U.S. and Canadian oil production over the last decade has added the equivalent of “one Russia or one Saudi Arabia” to the markets — pushing the planet farther away from ever getting a grip on its pollution and limiting climate change.
Norway's US$1-trillion wealth fund, the biggest of its kind in the world, will begin dumping shares in oil and gas companies including some Canadian names, but stopped short of barring major producers like Suncor, ExxonMobil and Chevron.
The Canadian government is directly investing in women-owned businesses as part of its $2 billion Women Entrepreneurship Strategy. Introduced in the 2018 federal budget, the strategy aims to support women in entrepreneurship and double the number of women who own businesses in Canada by 2025.
In the wake of the news that Doug Ford's friend Ron Taverner withdrew his name from the province's top policing job, National Observer spoke to experts to understand what the process was meant to be and what, if any, accountability measures are available to deal with a conflict-of-interest situation like this.
Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer says he didn't hear a man mention a widely debunked conspiracy theory while answering questions at a town hall earlier this week.
Facebook should ban posts by so-called anti-vaxxers in order to protect children against measles and other contagious diseases, says a British Columbia mother who launched a petition urging parents to start home schooling if they're against immunization.
In the wake of the news that Doug Ford's friend Ron Taverner withdrew his name from the province's top policing job, National Observer spoke to experts to understand what the process was meant to be and what, if any, accountability measures are available to deal with a conflict-of-interest situation like this.
Perhaps the most depressing spectacle of the entire Trudeau SNC-Lavalin implosion is that neither the prime minister nor the people around him seem to have any idea of how badly their tunnel vision distorted their judgment in the conduct of this file.
A prominent chief is urging SNC-Lavalin lawyer Frank Iacobucci to resign his position as special envoy to First Nations for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the Trans Mountain expansion project. Iacoubucci's name popped up a couple of times in bombshell testimony on Feb. 27 by former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould.
Canada's Climate Daily
