After following the evolution of the Energy East pipeline project proposal for years, I thought I had documented a large part of this epic political saga, writes National Observer managing editor Mike De Souza. But then I read Jacques Poitras’s riveting account of the story in his new book, Pipe Dreams: The Fight for Canada's Energy Future.
The Saskatchewan government approved a large-scale wind energy project Thursday for the province's southwest as a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Chief Bobby Cameron, with the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN), said a closed−door meeting with the prime minister last week was productive, but the frustration depicted in the video is real.
Ontario Attorney General Caroline Mulroney was conspicuously absent as her premier told reporters on Monday afternoon that he planned to suspend constitutional rights in Toronto following a stunning rebuke from the courts.
Federal public servants never analyzed the full impact of a national price on carbon in Canada's most populous province, and are now holding additional meetings as a result of Ontario Premier Doug Ford's election and his subsequent decision to abandon a carbon trading market, a senior federal official revealed Thursday.
Two First Nations in Saskatchewan have filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against an energy company responsible for an oil spill that fouled the drinking water supply of thousands of people two years ago.
At the time of the incident, residents in the town of Unity, Sask. said the overwhelming smell wafted in from outside. More than six months later, the Saskatchewan Ministry of Energy and Resources has come out with its findings about what made them sick.
Facing pressure from rural communities and opposition MPs, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he's asked Transport Minister Marc Garneau to find solutions to Greyhound Canada's decision to pull its buses from the Prairies, B.C. and northern Ontario.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government continues to "engage deeply with leaders and communities" when he was asked whether he would visit an Indigenous protest on the Saskatchewan legislature grounds.
Saskatchewan's Provincial Capital Commission is calling on Regina police to remove a growing number of teepees set up in protest outside the legislature to make way for a Canada Day concert stage and beer gardens.
A disappointed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is planning an intervention in Ontario after Doug Ford announced he was abandoning his province's commitment to a national climate change plan.
Asked how long he thinks it will take to fulfill a campaign trail pledge to extricate Ontario from its cap and trade system for controlling emissions and how much it will cost, Premier-designate Doug Ford instead started talking about how he thought it would be hard for him to pick out a cabinet because of the strength of his team.