Canada can make vaccines, just not the ones to stop COVID-19
The head of a Canadian biotech industry association says Canada can and does make vaccines — just not the ones expected first to help stop the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Lack of Canadian vaccine production means others will get inoculations first: PM
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sought to reassure Canadians on Tuesday, November 24, 2020, that COVID-19 vaccines will start to arrive in the coming months even as he acknowledged that other nations are likely to start inoculating their citizens first.
Canadian labour leader hopes Biden’s efforts pressure Canada on climate, jobs
The president of the Canadian Labour Congress says setting climate targets will have to go hand-in-hand with developing a strategy around protecting workers.
Tough talk on China could hurt efforts to free Kovrig, Spavor, Canada's foreign minister warns
Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne warned on Monday, November 23, 2020, that tough talk about China could hurt efforts to gain the release of two arbitrarily detained Canadians.
Sexual misconduct victims to receive apology from Canadian Armed Forces
The commander of the Canadian Armed Forces is preparing to formally apologize to victims of sexual misconduct as the military seeks to turn the page on its record of failing to prevent inappropriate and criminal behaviour.
Liberals' climate accountability bill can be saved — but only if we act now
If we want to get to net zero by 2050, we first have to get to roughly half as many emissions in 2030 as in 2010, Elizabeth May says.
Canada’s future hangs in the balance, Trudeau says, as COVID-19 cases rise
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is warning Canada’s future hangs in the balance if people don’t reduce their contacts to prevent dire new COVID-19 projections from becoming a reality.
Bill lays groundwork for possible court enforcement of climate law, says Amos
“What we’re trying to do is create a set of accountability norms that will put an exceptionally high degree of pressure on both the present and future federal administrations,” says Liberal parliamentary secretary Will Amos.
Forget Keystone — Canada needs a cross-border clean energy economy
It was former prime minister Pierre Trudeau who once described sharing a border with America as akin to sleeping with an elephant. “No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast,” he said, “one is affected by every twitch and grunt.”
Trudeau 'deeply disappointed' by actions of Liberal MP who employed her sister in riding office
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he is "deeply disappointed" by how Toronto MP Yasmin Ratansi handled her office.
President-elect Joe Biden's long to-do list to include repairing damaged Canada-U. S. ties
Joe Biden's to-do list just got a whole lot longer — and it's a safe bet it now includes patching the holes in Canada's relationship with the United States.
Proposed U.S. navy weapons testing in Salish Sea alarms residents: Elizabeth May
The Green party’s parliamentary leader and MP for Saanich—Gulf Islands has raised the issue twice in the House of Commons and written to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau urging him to protest the rules surrounding new U.S. navy tests, including torpedoes, sonar technology and underwater drones.
Trudeau hopeful Canada will have COVID-19 vaccine by early 2021
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday he hopes to see COVID-19 vaccines roll out in Canada early next year, but warned that won’t bring an immediate resolution to the pandemic currently seeing a resurgence in several provinces.
Alberta says oil and gas industry to save money with new pollution rules
“The Canadian government needs to stop bending over backwards to the big oil lobby and oil-friendly provincial governments at the expense of public health and action on the climate emergency,” says Environmental Defence.
Canada needs more resilient energy sector, oilpatch worker group says
The climate emergency “will be orders of magnitude greater in severity” than what has happened with COVID-19, said Iron & Earth director Bruce Wilson.