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October 22nd 2018
In their announcement, Trudeau and his ministers will specify how much revenue they expect to collect from carbon pricing and subsequently return directly to people who live in each of the non-complying provinces. The fees would be collected through a federal tax on products that contribute to climate change such as gasoline.
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Carbon pollution would have to be cut by 45 per cent by 2030 – compared with a 20 per cent cut under the 2C pathway – and come down to zero by 2050, compared with 2075 for 2C. This would require carbon prices that are three to four times higher than for a 2C target. But the costs of doing nothing would be far higher.
Jonathan Watts
News, Energy, Politics
| October 8th 2018
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BP has been drilling in the Scotian Basin, in search of the eight billion barrels of oil expected to be buried there. But its project in the area experienced a leak this summer that has some residents worried.
Carl Meyer
News, Energy, Politics
| October 22nd 2018
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Alberta Premier Rachel Notley is proposing Ottawa get into the crude-by-rail business — at least temporarily — so that producers in her province can get a better price for their oil.
Lauren Krugel
News, Politics
| October 23rd 2018
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As other major countries develop plans to ban gasoline vehicles and increase sales of electric cars, it can be hard just to find an electric car in B.C.
Tracy Sherlock
Opinion, Energy, Politics
| October 22nd 2018
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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.
Sheila Watt-Cloutier
Opinion
| October 19th 2018
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An Ottawa-based real estate firm has asked a Swiss court to shut down a campaign linking it to alleged corruption in Malaysia.
Timothy E. Wilson, Carl Meyer
News, Politics
| October 22nd 2018
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Toronto Mayor John Tory easily won re-election on Monday, October 22, 2018, trouncing the city's former planner after a campaign marked by unprecedented interference from the provincial government, but at least a dozen other communities were forced to extend voting by as much as a day due to technical or other difficulties.
Michelle McQuigge, Colin Perkel
News, Politics
| October 23rd 2018
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Months after sexual misconduct allegations forced him to step down as leader of Ontario's Progressive Conservatives, Patrick Brown has made a political comeback — this time as a city mayor.
Paola Loriggio
News, Politics
| October 23rd 2018
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Friday morning at the Tsawwassen Coast Inn hotel in Delta, the Minister of Small Business and Export Promotion announced a new government fund of $20M for women in business. The fund, a part of the government's women's entrepreneurship strategy, can assist women looking to grow their businesses, expand into new markets, upgrade facilities, equipment or improve technologies.
Emilee Gilpin
News, Politics
| October 22nd 2018
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A 34-year-old rapper who fell to his death in British Columbia while performing a stunt that involved rapping while walking on the wing of a plane was a "beacon of light to follow your dreams," his management team says.
Laura Kane
News, Politics
| October 23rd 2018
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