Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe flew into Toronto on Monday for a whirlwind visit with his Ontario counterpart, Doug Ford, as the pair took turns spreading misleading information about the federal government's plan to reduce Canada's greenhouse gas emissions.
Federal minister Jean-Yves Duclos praised Quebec’s leadership in fighting climate change on Tuesday, and said Quebec Premier François Legault will try to persuade reluctant fellow premiers to put a price on carbon pollution.
Twelve months from now, Canadians will pass judgment on the Trudeau government and decide whether its first mandate should be its last or if it deserves another four years.
Climate change isn’t just about starving polar bears or melting ice, writes Sheila Watt-Cloutier. It is about human rights, human health, food security, poverty, loss of traditional knowledge, and global insecurity as traditional ways of life that are lost to glacier melt, coastal erosion, permafrost melt, rising seas, extreme drought, floods and violent weather.
Quebec Premier Francois Legault promised to bring renewal and change to the province's politics on Thursday, October 18, 2018, after his convincing election victory ended nearly 50 years of Liberal and Parti Quebecois rule.
Canada's natural resources minister says the environment and the economy go hand-in-hand after he toured the site of a new liquefied natural gas venture in British Columbia, days after the United Nations warned more needs to be done to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
David McLaughlin of the International Institute for Sustainable Development provides key citations from the special report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to show how Canada already is, and increasingly will be, affected by global warming and climate change.