From Sweden to Egypt on two wheels to raise climate awareness
She has pedaled thousands of miles from Sweden to Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to deliver a simple message: Stop climate change.
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African nations demand more money and carbon offsets to remove emissions
African nations want to increase how much money they receive from schemes that offset greenhouse gas emissions and are looking for ways to address the issue at U.N. climate talks currently underway in Egypt.
Trudeau arrives in Indonesia for G20 summit with goal of further isolating Russia
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrived in Bali, Indonesia on Monday, November 14, 2022, for a gathering of leaders from the G-20 countries.
Canadian methane emissions are vastly underestimated
As the federal government moves to tighten regulations on methane emissions, new assessments suggest the amount of the potent greenhouse gas escaping into the atmosphere has been significantly underestimated.
B.C. is recovering from last year's climate disasters, but future problems loom on horizon
When a dike was breached and floodwaters started to flow across British Columbia's Sumas Prairie a year ago, poultry farmer Corry Spitters said all he could do was let nature take its course.
After Ontario’s labour resurgence, is it time for a general strike for climate?
Under threat of a general strike, the Ontario government walked back a controversial law last week. What else could a general strike accomplish?
‘We’re not in igloos anymore’: Seal Summit wraps with hope for a growing market for Inuit hunters
Reconseal is a co-operative started by Inuk and non-Inuk sealers. The two are teaching each other hunting techniques, worldviews and cultures in the spirit of reconciliation while providing seal to urban Inuit in the South.
Most home compostable plastics don’t work
Most plastics marketed as “home compostable” don’t actually work, with as much as 60 per cent failing to disintegrate after six months, according to new research.
Can we have a reasonable conversation, please?
Canada's National Observer lead columnist Max Fawcett launches new podcast — Maxed Out.
Conditional sentencing limits threaten reconciliation in Canada’s criminal justice system, advocates say
All eyes turn to Parliament with the courts upholding the constitutionality on limits to conditional sentencing. Now it's a question if Bill C-5, which will remove some mandatory sentencing, will pass. But will the bill go far enough?
A timeline of Ontario’s labour troubles in schools
In the space of nine days, Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government drew up, imposed and promised to withdraw a law that invoked the Charter of Rights and Freedoms’ notwithstanding clause to block any opposition to its enforced four-year pay offer to Canadian Union of Public Employees members.
Canadian Gas Association under investigation for alleged greenwashing
A prominent natural gas industry lobby group is being investigated by Canada’s Competition Bureau for alleged greenwashing one month after health-care workers raised the alarm over one of its advertising campaigns.
Big oil spills into UN climate conference with hundreds of lobbyists
Hundreds of fossil fuel lobbyists including at least a dozen from Canada are in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt for this year’s United Nations’ climate conference, a data analysis from Corporate Accountability, Corporate Europe Observatory and Global Witness reveals.
Freeland says there will be disagreements, but she can work with Alberta's new premier
Canada's deputy prime minister says she is looking forward to working with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, even though the provincial politician has taken a combative tone toward the federal government.
RCMP was caught off guard by blockade despite warnings: Coutts mayor
RCMP appeared caught off guard by protesters blockading a Canada-U.S. border crossing last winter despite Alberta's government being warned ahead of time, the mayor of Coutts, Alta., testified at a public inquiry on Wednesday, November 9, 2022.