A new economic report says the next decade in Canada will increasingly be shaped by the twin forces of climate change and demographic disruption from an aging population.
Somewhere in west Texas, amid one of the most productive oilfields in the continent, a Canadian company is building a plant that it hopes will eventually suck from the air a million tonnes of carbon being pumped out of the ground all around it.
They're all ambassadors for Protect Our Winters Canada, a non-profit advocacy group based in Waterloo, Ont. It's made up of outdoor enthusiasts, professional athletes and sporting brands trying to get governments to take action on climate change.
The cancer caused by asbestos takes a long time to develop, but once it does, the damage is often brutal and injury lawsuits plentiful — and the Canadian financial industry should keep that kind of slow-burn risk in mind for the climate crisis, its regulator says.