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Max Fawcett
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Opinion, Politics
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May 7th 2024
Pierre Poilievre has spent the last few years explaining how much he cares about protecting the freedom of Canadians. So why is he now promising to pre-emptively suspend their charter rights — and what would that mean for its future?
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The federal Conservative Leader is targeting the NDP's rural ridings on the B.C. coast where his party typically runs a close second and is courting the People's Party far-right, libertarian vote to get his candidates past the post.
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News
| May 7th 2024
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The Alberta government struck a deal with Shell that allowed the oilsands company to sell $203 million worth of credits for greenhouse gas emission reductions that never happened, a new Greenpeace Canada report reveals.
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News, Ottawa Insider
| May 7th 2024
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Along Canadian coastlines and waterfronts, increased erosion, storm surge and rising seas are putting more homes at risk of flooding. However, an East Coast researcher has found many people oppose flood-risk mapping because they fear their real estate will be devalued.
Cloe Logan
News, Climate Solutions Reporting
| May 7th 2024
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The Canadian documentary Plastic People advocates urgently reducing plastic production to aid human health.
Marisa Sittheeamorn
News
| May 7th 2024
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An e-petition is asking Parliament to support the recognition of “ecocide” as a crime at the International Criminal Court.
Amalie Wilkinson
Opinion
| May 7th 2024
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Advocates are calling on Ottawa to profoundly change the powers of the watchdog who monitors Canadian corporations operating abroad, as the Liberals review how a new ombudsman should take on the job.
Dylan Robertson
News, Politics
| May 6th 2024
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A 26-member board is finally beginning work on the UN's new loss and damage fund. And the to-do list is long.
Naveena Sadasivam
News, Politics
| May 7th 2024
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From the archives
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Marc Fawcett-Atkinson
News
| April 25th 2023
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