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Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna and Science Minister Kirsty Duncan confirmed on Wednesday that they were freeing up new federal funds to send a lifeline to the Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory (PEARL) — arguably the most important Arctic research lab in the world.

The single biggest element of Canada's national emissions reduction plan might not be unveiled on time.

The procedure would be a departure from the NEB's previous treatment of Kinder Morgan. The regulator had refused to allow cross-examination of company officials in its original hearings to review the project, which were set up when the former Harper government was in power. The Trudeau government has declined to intervene in the case.

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley is to go on tour later this month to stump for the Trans Mountain pipeline, but is resisting opposition calls to wield a big stick against its opponents.

Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall is refusing to apologize for his government's accusations against Burnaby after getting a letter from the British Columbia coastal city's lawyer. The provincial government accused the City of Burnaby last Friday of "deliberately slowing down" permits for Texas-based Kinder Morgan and the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project.

Does Valérie Plante owe part of her victory to the sweeping influence of the #MeToo movement and an overwhelming desire by voters to disassociate from the Old Boys’ network and an era of arrogant men steamrolling through what they wanted? Without a doubt.

In July 1925, the State of Tennessee put a substitute biology teacher named John Thomas Scopes on trial for teaching children about evolution in the Tennessee public schools.

Punctuating her address several times with her trademark, full-sized laugh, the newly-elected Valérie Plante said that “we have lots of work to do in the coming years,” and appealed directly to Montrealers for their help in “getting [it] done.”

The Trump administration announced on Thursday, November 3, 2017, it will hold a public hearing in West Virginia on its plan to nullify an Obama-era plan to limit planet-warming carbon emissions. The state is economically dependent on coal mining.

Manitoba's sustainable development minister says a federal threat to impose a higher carbon tax on the province is misguided and reveals a breakdown of co-operative federalism.

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says she wants the National Energy Board to move quickly to remove roadblocks on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project.

One of the country's largest oilsands companies is facing federal charges in the death of 31 great blue herons at one of its mine sites in northern Alberta more than two years ago.

The National Energy Board has rejected a requested deadline proposed by pipeline giant Kinder Morgan to limit debate about its request to short-circuit provincial and municipal laws standing in the way of its Trans Mountain expansion project.

"So you're the Rebel Media that happens to call me 'climate Barbie.' I certainly hope that you will no longer use that hashtag," Catherine McKenna said.

B.C. Environment Minister George Heyman said that Kinder Morgan's recent behaviour requires federal and provincial authorities to place more scrutiny on the company. “I think it’s reprehensible that Kinder Morgan acts as if they don’t have to follow the conditions in the permit that they received."