|
We're offering a Canadian take on the U.S. election from our unique perspective.
Subscribe now by taking advantage of our special offer of only $25 for six months.
Your subscription will give you access to reporting, opinion and searing analysis from contributors like Karyn Pugliese, Sandy Garossino, Bruce Livesey and Victor Juhasz.
And that's not all. Join Linda Solomon Wood for online real-time interviews with Canadian political leaders and international experts, including: Democracy Now! founder Amy Goodman and former CSIS director Richard Fadden.
Your subscription allows you to submit questions to host Linda Solomon Wood ahead of time for speakers in Conversations. Subscribe today, join the conversation and support in-depth journalism.
And now for today's news, curated by our editors for you.
|
|
|
Carl Meyer
|
News, Ottawa Insider
|
September 18th 2020
Environment and Climate Change Minister Jonathan Wilkinson has talked about using the revenue from the Trans Mountain oil pipeline to pay for green energy projects. But what if that revenue never comes because there’s little demand for oil in the first place?
|
|
|
More in today's news
The throne speech will happen Sept. 23. The student campaign comes as COVID-19 cases rise again, and as the government appears to back off from its initially lofty promises of a green recovery.
E. McIntosh
News, Energy, Politics, Ottawa Insider
| September 18th 2020
|
|
|
Positive Energy’s survey research has shown that when opinions on climate and energy issues are polarized, it is most often along partisan lines. Fostering nonpartisan conversations can enhance perceptions of legitimacy.
Brendan Frank, Sébastien Girard Lindsay
Opinion
| September 18th 2020
|
|
|
Canadian consumers wasted two kilograms of food a week before the pandemic. Not anymore. That’s according to a survey released earlier this month by Love Food Hate Waste, an international campaign working to reduce household food waste, which found Canadians are wasting less food since the pandemic started.
Marc Fawcett-Atkinson
News, Food Insider
| September 18th 2020
|
|
|
Ocean acidification and new diseases tied to warming ocean waters are significant threats to the viability of B.C.’s shellfish aquaculture sector.
Rochelle Baker
News, Island Insider
| September 18th 2020
|
|
|
The senior city staffer, Ulli Watkiss, is recommending that Toronto council stop getting ranked ballots ready for the 2022 municipal election, citing the COVID-19 pandemic. Advocates have pushed for a decade to ditch first-past-the-post voting in favour of a preferential voting system they say increases the diversity of candidates and improves the tenor of campaigns.
Morgan Sharp
News, Politics, Next Gen Insider
| September 17th 2020
|
|
|
The how and why of ranked ballots, a form of preferential voting that advocates say can encourage a more diverse field of candidates and engender a more collaborative and collegial form of campaigning and governance.
Morgan Sharp
News, Politics, Next Gen Insider
| September 17th 2020
|
|
|
Ontario and Montana have a serious wild pig problem. Can they take control of it before it’s too late?
Diane Peters
News, Culture
| September 18th 2020
|
|
|
Chief Malii came to understand quite well what his grandfather had meant when he said the land is hanii tohowxt, or what could only be loosely translated to “dining table.” “My grandfather meant the whole lax yip (territory) provided moose, salmon, berries, medicines. All the things that provide for your dinner table, the land provides."
Emilee Gilpin
News
| September 18th 2020
|
|
|
From the archives
|
|
Emilee Gilpin
News, Energy, Politics
| January 22nd 2018
|
|
|
