In a statement Monday, federal Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said Premier Doug Ford’s program “meets the minimum stringency requirements” to replace Ottawa’s version and the government is “required” to sign off. He also said the government intends to make its threshold more stringent after 2022.
The news of O’Toole’s positive test result led Quebec Premier François Legault, who had met with O’Toole earlier in the week, to self-isolate and get tested himself. “No one is immune to contagion,” he said.
Métis suicide prevention advocate Tristen Durocher's 44-day protest fast in Regina came to an end in a flurry of sound, ceremony and emotion. As the sun began to set, the 24-year-old musician played Red River Valley on his fiddle and had a few words for youths suffering in the province.
You expect to see the phrase natural disaster all over the news when hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanic explosions, floods, or fires cause a lot of deaths and property damage. This fire season, however, politicians and other people are beginning to ditch natural disaster for phrases that are more specific — and more accurate.
Chief Malii came to understand quite well what his grandfather had meant when he said the land is hanii tohowxt, or what could only be loosely translated to “dining table.” “My grandfather meant the whole lax yip (territory) provided moose, salmon, berries, medicines. All the things that provide for your dinner table, the land provides."
Canadian consumers wasted two kilograms of food a week before the pandemic. Not anymore. That’s according to a survey released earlier this month by Love Food Hate Waste, an international campaign working to reduce household food waste, which found Canadians are wasting less food since the pandemic started.
The throne speech will happen Sept. 23. The student campaign comes as COVID-19 cases rise again, and as the government appears to back off from its initially lofty promises of a green recovery.
Environment and Climate Change Minister Jonathan Wilkinson has talked about using the revenue from the Trans Mountain oil pipeline to pay for green energy projects. But what if that revenue never comes because there’s little demand for oil in the first place?
The how and why of ranked ballots, a form of preferential voting that advocates say can encourage a more diverse field of candidates and engender a more collaborative and collegial form of campaigning and governance.
The senior city staffer, Ulli Watkiss, is recommending that Toronto council stop getting ranked ballots ready for the 2022 municipal election, citing the COVID-19 pandemic. Advocates have pushed for a decade to ditch first-past-the-post voting in favour of a preferential voting system they say increases the diversity of candidates and improves the tenor of campaigns.