Trish Audette-Longo, Fatima Syed
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News, Energy, Politics
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December 5th 2018
As the two party leaders intent on knocking Kathleen Wynne out of the premier’s office this year talked about their plans for Hydro One, utilities commissioners in Washington were watching and listening. And they were becoming increasingly concerned that a merger between Hydro One and Spokane-based Avista Corp. would always be at risk of political interference.
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B.C.’s new plan to reduce carbon emissions in the province will require changes in how we drive, where we live and how industry operates.
Tracy Sherlock
News
| December 5th 2018
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The Canadian Crown corporation that controls the Trans Mountain oil pipeline booked over $20 million in interest expenses in a single month.
Carl Meyer
News, Energy, Politics
| December 5th 2018
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When Finance Minister Morneau delivered his Fall Economic Update in the third week of November he painted a rosy picture of Trans Mountain’s financial performance. What Morneau didn’t tell Canadians is that if he had included interest expense for the debt taken on to buy the pipeline, there is actually a loss.
Robyn Allan
Analysis, Energy
| December 5th 2018
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The authority in charge of public safety in the oil and gas sector does not inspect oil and natural gas pipelines itself, instead auditing companies' own inspection reports once every five years, Ontario’s auditor general said Wednesday morning. The absence of strong regulatory practices increases the province's risk of environmental contamination.
Fatima Syed
News
| December 5th 2018
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As many other provinces falter, B.C. jumps at clean economic opportunity
Karen Tam Wu
Analysis
| December 5th 2018
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Canada will be ready to set tougher emissions-cutting plans when the Paris climate-change agreement kicks in by the end of 2020, Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says.
Mia Rabson
News, Politics
| December 5th 2018
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It has been just over two months since they were elected to the legislature, and new Quebec solidaire members have not yet succeeded in their goal of replacing capitalism. But they have launched an assault on business attire that is making waves in the provincial capital.
Giuseppe Valiante
News, Politics
| December 6th 2018
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The Quebec government tabled legislation on Wednesday, December 5, 2018, that would impose the strictest cannabis controls in the country, raising the legal age to 21 and outlawing consumption in public.
Jocelyne Richer
News, Politics
| December 6th 2018
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Montreal's mayor apologized on Wednesday, December 5, 2018, for speaking almost entirely in English as she delivered a speech highlighting international foreign investment in Montreal.
Morgan Lowrie
News, Politics
| December 6th 2018
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An Ontario First Nation suffering from generations of mercury poisoning still needs a treatment centre and help for children harmed by the toxic metal, its chief said on Wednesday, December 5, 2018.
Kristy Kirkup, Janice Dickson
News, Politics
| December 6th 2018
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"The time to act is now," the NDP MP writes, explaining why she has joined the call for a grassroots movement for global social, environmental and economic justice.
Niki Ashton
Opinion, Politics
| December 5th 2018
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As the federal government invests multi millions in a chicken processing facility, Animal Justice director Anna Pippus says it's time for an urgent transition to a plant-based diet to help save the planet.
Anna Pippus
Opinion
| December 5th 2018
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It was his first NATO meeting in 1989, and as a parade of world leaders took turns at the podium, newly elected U.S. president George H.W. Bush was taking a lot of notes.
James McCarten
News, US News, Politics
| December 6th 2018
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One day those who haven’t yet been born will look at these pictures and marvel that no one gathered there knew what would happen next.
Sandy Garossino
Opinion
| December 5th 2018
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This is the terrain on which the great struggle of our time is being waged: who defines crisis, who benefits from it, and what is made invisible in the process. And we are not yet winning: this very same month saw plenty of genuine crises, all connected to climate breakdown, which made only time-limited appearances in our national debate.
Avi Lewis
Opinion
| December 5th 2018
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