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A climate plan voters disliked
“If you want to be prime minister in this country, you better take climate action,” said Merran Smith, founder and executive director of Clean Energy Canada.
Zuckerberg skewered for disinformation committee no-show
The reporter who broke the Cambridge Analytica scandal says Facebook's CEO "needs to be subpoenaed" by the international disinformation committee.
Manitoba premier to talk pipelines, flood protection and more with prime minister
Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister says the prime minister must help unify the country by ensuring the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion is built so that western oil can get coastal access to overseas markets.
Maple Leaf Foods now carbon neutral: company says
Maple Leaf Foods Inc. says it has become carbon neutral by reducing its emissions and investing in environmental projects in Canada and the United States.
How humans kicked off the Pyrocene, a new ‘age of fire’
Are we reckoning with a new age of fire? Is this the Pyrocene?
VCIB buys CoPower, eyes expansion
Vancouver City Savings Credit Union, colloquially known as Vancity, wanted to expand its sustainable-financing operations, the chief executive of its banking subsidiary told Canada's National Observer, and CoPower offered a great opportunity to do so.
'Antiquated' privacy laws jeopardize rights
Canada's federal, provincial and territorial privacy commissioners are calling on governments across the country to modernize access-to-information and privacy laws. Here's why.
Quebec backtracks on changes to immigration program aimed at students
The Quebec government is backtracking on proposed changes to a popular immigration program aimed at university students that would've seen many of them sent home.
Squamish Nation-led housing project in Vancouver to double in size
One of the largest Indigenous-led urban development projects in Canada that proponents hope will rise in the heart of Vancouver is set to double in size with 6,000 units planned.
Almost half of all First Nations families are 'food insecure': 10-year study
A new national study of nutrition among First Nations has found rates of obesity and diabetes that are significantly higher than the general Canadian population.
Green coalition calls on feds to disclose true costs of climate change
Almost two dozen Canadian environment groups are urging the federal Liberal government to make sure its next budget acknowledges that climate change is costing the country hundreds of millions of dollars every year.
Ford government pauses spending cuts, proposes tax cut
Ontario’s budget deficit is set to widen this fiscal year compared to the last one, but Finance Minister Rod Phillips insisted the province’s finances are in better shape than when the Progressive Conservatives came to power.
Witness in ex-SNC-exec's fraud trial offered $10 million to cooperate, he says
The fraud and corruption trial of a former SNC-Lavalin executive has heard of an attempt by a lawyer representing the accused to pay off a key Crown witness currently on the stand.
First Nation, environmental groups seek leave to appeal pipeline ruling
A British Columbia First Nation and three environmental groups hope to appeal a Federal Court of Appeal decision that limited their ability to challenge the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion in court.