New study paints oil firms’ climate claims as greenwashing
“Financial analysis reveals a continuing business model dependence on fossil fuels along with insignificant and opaque spending on clean energy.”
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Hearings to start for planned Chalk River nuclear disposal facility
The project, the first of its kind in Canada, would hold up to a million tonnes of radioactive and hazardous waste about a kilometre from the Ottawa River in a “near surface” facility, which is effectively a large mound.
Canadian journalists shocked and sickened watching colleagues called names like "disgusting, filthy human being"
In a video from Ottawa, a broadcaster stares at the camera in silence as protesters surround him and scream expletives, calling him a liar and bellowing "freedom."
Legal realities crash in on Ottawa 'trucker' blockaders
Silence and calm reigned on the streets of Ottawa for the first time in more than three weeks on Sunday, February 20, 2022, as police continued their efforts to put a final end to anti−government demonstrations that immobilized the national capital.
How Canadian police moved in calmly and forcefully on Ottawa anti-vax-mandate protestors
Police officers donned helmets, wielded batons and deployed pepper spray in downtown Ottawa on Saturday, February 19, 2022, as they tried to clear out protesters putting up what the city's interim police chief described as a "barrage of resistance" to ending their illegal occupation of the national capital.
Quebec Omicron-fuelled long COVID exceeds the 'already weakened capacity of our health-care system'
Montrealer Claudia Hébert says she started to feel extreme fatigue and to get fevers three weeks after returning from Senegal in March 2020, with only a few months left to a complete her Université de Montréal veterinary medicine program.
Canada pushes past Omicron Covid-19 crisis peak
The country’s top doctor says Canada is past the peak of the COVID-19 wave caused by the Omicron variant and is ready to move out of a crisis response.
Anti-vax-mandate protest group asks court to stop feds from using Emergencies Act now
A group involved in the anti-government protest against COVID-19 measures in Ottawa is asking a court to put the brakes on federal use of the Emergencies Act to clamp down on demonstrators.
Trucker anti-vax-mandate Ottawa protest organizers get a reality check
Pat King, one of the leading figures behind an antigovernment protest on Parliament Hill is set to appear in court today to face charges related to his role in the demonstration.
RCMP investigate alleged attack on Coastal GasLink workers, officers
Federal, provincial politicians condemn the incident that occurred overnight Thursday in B.C.
Police in Ottawa, some on horseback, others in riot gear, arrest 70 and tow vehicles from protest site
Police officers descended on anti-government protesters in Ottawa on Friday, arresting 70 people and towing vehicles in a push to end a three-week occupation that has reverberated across Canada and around the world.
Feds say no more funding for Trans Mountain expansion as project costs nearly double
Trans Mountain Corp. partially blames the cost increases on the COVID-19 pandemic and the effects of the November 2021 flooding in British Columbia.
Canada condemns shelling of kindergarten in Ukraine
Canada's foreign minister has accused Russia of trying to escalate the crisis with the West by shelling a kindergarten in eastern Ukraine.
Shackan First Nation return home after B.C. flood
Members of a British Columbia First Nation who were forced from their homes more than 90 days ago when a nearby river changed course during catastrophic floods are now allowed to return.