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Facebook's threat to pull news from platform is intimidation tactic: Ottawa
Federal Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez accused Meta on Thursday, December 15, 2022, of trying to intimidate Canadians with threats of pulling news content from its Facebook platform, following the adoption of Bill C-18 in the House of Commons.
Liberal government seeks delay in medically assisted dying program expansion
The Liberal government announced on Thursday, December 15, 2022, it will seek to delay the expansion of Canada's assisted-dying regime to include people whose sole underlying conditions are mental disorders.
Alberta wants to wrest control of prosecutions for banned firearms from Ottawa
Alberta's justice minister says provincial prosecutors are to take over the handling of charges under the federal Firearms Act starting in the new year.
Shell Canada snaps up gas stations in preparation for energy transition
After announcing its purchase of 56 gas stations from the parent company of Sobeys on Thursday, December 15, 2022, Shell Canada is on the lookout for other potential acquisitions as it seeks to grow its retail fuel footprint across the country.
Expert says search of landfill for women's remains may succeed
In 2002, investigators started a massive search of Robert Pickton's pig farm in British Columbia and eventually found the remains of several women.
Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick expecting huge snow dump in places
Parts of Central and Eastern Canada could see as much as 20 centimetres of snow by the end of the weekend, as a winter storm continues its path eastward.
UN official warns of 'trust deficit' in Montreal biodiversity talks
The Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations says the ongoing tension around public financing to save nature stem from a "trust deficit" because wealthier countries have failed to fulfil their financing promises to developing nations in the past.
Tobacco market in B.C. is 30 to 50 per cent contraband, retailers, industry fear
At first, Cory Holland thought government anti-smoking measures were working when he noticed tobacco sales at his British Columbia convenience store started to drop.
Trudeau's year end questions from the public asked about everything from politics to mermaid sex
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau may not have started the day thinking about whether mermaids reproduce like fish or like humans, but that's what one person is asking him to consider.
A more sustainable World Cup will look like this
The Paris 2024 Olympics will be “climate positive,” organizers claim. The men’s World Cup in 2026 — to be held in Mexico, the U.S. and Canada — will be the “lowest-carbon FIFA World Cup of the modern era,” if promises pan out.
China calls on Canada for help in race to reach global biodiversity deal
China is tapping Canada to help overcome the toughest negotiation hurdles at the United Nations’ COP15 biodiversity conference in Montreal in a diplomatic move that signals growing trust between the two countries.
Puffin nesting sites in western Europe could be gone by the end of this century
Researchers from the Zoological Society of London and the University of Cambridge have put together a guide on how the birds can be protected from worsening conditions, using the expertise of 80 conservationists and policymakers across 15 European countries.
Canada, EU remain optimistic, but global biodiversity deal stuck on fund to help developing countries protect nature
Virginijus Sinkevičius, EU environment commissioner and Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault remain optimistic the United Nations biodiversity conference in Montreal will result in an ambitious plan to protect nature, but developing countries appear unwilling to move forward without financing commitments from wealthy countries.
Ontario can ditch natural gas power by 2050 — but it’ll come with a $400B price tag: grid operator
Decarbonizing Ontario’s electricity system is going to cost about $400 billion over the next two and a half decades and require a “no regrets” kind of attitude to get there, according to the province’s grid operator.