Businesses built around mining — even those with diversified portfolios — are in sharp decline as the COVID-19 pandemic takes its toll on northern industry.
The federal government is rolling out billions of dollars in new financial help targeting hard-hit sectors of the economy, acknowledging that some companies need more support and others are slipping through the safety net of emergency aid meant to help them through the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Quite frankly, in my view, the climate crisis is, in orders of magnitude, a greater threat,” Suzuki said. “The COVID crisis is a crisis for human beings, but the climate crisis is a crisis for life on the planet.”
Four Toronto artists started a nightly online queer dance party as soon as the city’s live venues were shut down to limit the COVID-19’s spread. It’s been a month now, we’re all still in quarantine and Club Quarantine is settling in for the long haul.
Environmental advocates who spoke with National Observer on Friday said they were relieved Trudeau — at least for now — has avoided a much larger bailout of the industry.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be under pressure today to flesh out his promise to do more to protect seniors in long-term care homes, which have been hardest hit by the deadly COVID-19 pandemic.
Indigenous and environmental groups in the U.S. are pressuring a federal judge to shut down work on the disputed Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to Nebraska less than two weeks after it started, because of fears over workers spreading the coronavirus and worries about a future spill.
Canada's oil and gas producers have asked the federal government to freeze the carbon tax and delay new climate change regulations while the industry weathers the storm of COVID-19.
Energy company Royal Dutch Shell told investors on Thursday, April 16, 2020, that it aims to stop adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere by 2050, a move that was welcomed by some climate campaigners even as others called it “corporate greenwash.”
Canada's top court has refused to hear an appeal from a young man sentenced as an adult for a mass shooting in northern Saskatchewan when he was still a teenager.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tried to let Donald Trump down gently on Thursday, April 16, 2020, warning that Canada is still a long way from being ready to agree to relax mutual travel restrictions along its border with the United States.
The first payments from a $73-billion federal wage subsidy program will flow by the end of the first week of May, acting as a buttress against the economic shock from COVID-19.
The sweep of COVID-19 throughout Canada's nursing homes is proving more devastating than expected, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Thursday, April 16, 2020, as he warned that reopening the economy too early would be "absolutely disastrous."