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Emma McIntosh
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News, US News, Energy, Politics
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October 5th 2020
Donald Trump approved Keystone XL, but Joe Biden says he’d cancel it. Meanwhile, Alberta has invested $1.5 billion that it likely won’t get back if the pipeline fails. Experts say it's a high-risk gamble.
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More in today's news
Despite Trans Mountain's repeated assurance that the terminal tanks at the end of the pipeline meet "all relevant regulatory requirements... consistent with environmental best practices," residents still fear for their safety.
Tom Sandborn
Opinion
| October 5th 2020
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As a child, about 300 wild salmon, carefully packed into a chest freezer after each fishing season, sustained Kukpi7 Judy Wilson and her family for the year ahead. “We had one freezer for salmon, one freezer for wild meat, and my parents had a ranch farm. We were independent,” said Kukpi7 Wilson, now chief of the Neskonlith Indian Band, and Secretary-Treasurer of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs.
Marc Fawcett-Atkinson
News, Food Insider
| October 5th 2020
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Environment Canada predicts the upcoming decades will transform Canada’s climate, forcing farmers to re-evaluate everything from which seeds to buy to which pastures their livestock graze. That’s a huge challenge for farmers with no time to pore over scientific studies and models charting how the climate crisis will transform their land.
Marc Fawcett-Atkinson
News, Food Insider
| October 5th 2020
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Why is the Canada Pension Plan pouring billions of our retirement savings into oil, gas and coal companies that are incompatible with a safe climate?
Patrick DeRochie, Adam Scott
News
| October 5th 2020
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Canada is running out of time to prevent a major resurgence of COVID-19, the country's chief public health officer said on Saturday, October 3, 2020, as its two most populous provinces continued to report some of their highest daily case counts in months.
Adam Burns
News, Politics
| October 4th 2020
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The perils of America's fractured, partisan approach to the COVID-19 pandemic finally caught up on Friday, October 2, 2020, with U.S. President Donald Trump, now infected with the very virus that for months has threatened to end his tumultuous tenure in the White House.
James McCarten
News, US News, Politics
| October 3rd 2020
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Green Party of Canada members have chosen Toronto's Annamie Paul as their new leader.
The Canadian Press
News, Politics
| October 4th 2020
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Facing a looming court-imposed deadline, the federal government will reintroduce on Monday, October 5, 2020, legislation to amend Canada's law on medical assistance in dying.
Joan Bryden
News, Politics
| October 4th 2020
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