Money laundering has distorted British Columbia's economy, fuelled the opioid crisis and overheated the real estate market, the province argued at the start of an inquiry into the criminal activity on Monday, February 24, 2020.
The court acknowledged “the deep concern amongst Canadians” about climate change and that “a number of provinces” agreed with pricing pollution, but called this an appeal to “majoritarianism."
Ontario police moved to break up a Mohawk camp near railway lines in eastern Ontario early on Monday but several more solidarity action popped up in other parts of the country in response, highlighting the challenge law enforcement and the government have in tamping down a movement in support of Indigenous rights and protection of the environment.
The shelving of the Frontier project triggered laments from some sectors of the business community, while others said the project was doomed from the start.
Hundreds of thousands of young Indigenous campesinos in Mexico are putting down their farming tools to seek work abroad as harvests continue to drop dramatically. Brutality and loneliness in a village of women in the heat of climate change
Traditional chiefs of the Wet'suwet'en First Nation maintained on Saturday, February 22, 2020, that they want to see RCMP gone from their territory and a halt to construction of a natural-gas pipeline on their lands to kickstart talks with the federal government and see a possible end to crippling rail blockades.
More protests in solidarity with Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs sprung up on Saturday, February 21, 2020, a day after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pivoted to take a sterner tone with Indigenous leaders he blames for halting train service across much of Canada.
British Columbia's attorney general hopes an inquiry into money laundering will answer lingering questions about how the criminal activity flourished in the province and identify those who allowed it to happen.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford kicked off his re-election campaign on Saturday, February 22, 2020, night, a move he makes more than two years ahead of the next provincial election and on the same day union activists vowed to fight his government ahead of that vote.