Carl Meyer
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News, Energy, Politics
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September 20th 2018
As climate change warms the oceans and melts polar ice, rising the seas and provoking extreme storms, G7 members have found themselves unable to share basic facts about their promise to kill off government handouts to carbon-polluting industries.
Équiterre has accused Quebec's elections watchdog of trying to "muzzle environmental groups" and is defying the watchdog's demand to remove an election campaign survey from its website.
If the government really wants to develop Canada’s energy sector and get resources to market "they will invite Energy East back to the table," said Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer.
Thirteen months is an "absolutely normal" time frame for a task as complex as modernizing North American trade, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Wednesday, September 19, 2018, as she notched another day on the road towards a new NAFTA deal with the United States and Mexico.
"I had lived in places where we were the poor, mixed and broken family, and in places where we were the rich ones who leave their shoes outside to be stolen. All these moves taught me a secret not everybody learns."
"Their profit margins are bigger than oil and gas. Most people don’t know this,” explains Alyssa Arbuckle, Associate Director of a digital humanities lab at the University of Victoria.
National Observer is a finalist for "Best Publication" at the upcoming Canadian Online Publishing Awards and columnist Sandy Garossino is up for "Best Column" for her deep dive into the Omar Khadr case. Sandy's brave, thorough analysis of the Omar Khadr situation rocked Canada and changed the way people saw this important issue.
Liberal MPs put on a show of unity following the defection of a Toronto-area MP to the Tories, saying Leona Alleslev's decision is not a sign of wider unrest in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's caucus.
