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Analysis, Energy, Politics
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April 23rd 2024
Clean electricity is the backbone of the energy transition, but building the power grids needed will be a monumental task. Natural Resources and Energy Minister Jonathan Wilkinson sits down with Canada's National Observer to discuss forging the path ahead.
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Representatives from around the world are in Ottawa to negotiate a legally binding treaty to eliminate plastic pollution by 2040. But after a previous meeting went off the rails, pressure is now on delegates to make up for lost time in what promises to be one of the most important environmental weeks of the year.
John Woodside
News, Politics
| April 23rd 2024
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The federal government announced a new registry to track plastic production to set the tone as negotiations on a Global Plastics Treaty kick off on April 23 in Ottawa.
Natasha Bulowski
News, Politics, Ottawa Insider
| April 23rd 2024
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Recycling alone will not eliminate plastic waste. We must trace the life cycle of plastics to create a circular plastics economy.
Craig Hodge, Christina Seidel, Natasha Tucker
Opinion
| April 23rd 2024
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An agreement to protect a sprawling ranch in southern Alberta from development is the largest of its kind in the country, the Nature Conservancy of Canada says, and will allow the family that owns it to continue raising cattle there.
Rob Drinkwater
News
| April 22nd 2024
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The agency warned on Monday that over 70 per cent of the world's workforce is likely to be exposed to excessive heat during their careers. It also warned of air pollution, pesticides and other hazards that could lead to health problems including cancer.
Jamey Keaten
News
| April 22nd 2024
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Europe is the fastest-warming continent and its temperatures are rising at roughly twice the global average, two top climate monitoring organizations reported on Monday, warning of the consequences for human health, glacier melt and economic activity.
Jamey Keaten
News
| April 22nd 2024
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Young voters are mad as hell, and they're not going to take it anymore. Those trying to pander to them — or worse, using them as stalking horses for their own priorities — would do well to remember that.
Max Fawcett
Opinion, Politics
| April 23rd 2024
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Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen’s timely new book, Nuclear War: A Scenario, is a lightning-fast read intended to put the nuclear threat squarely back on everyone’s radar.
Michael Mechanic
News
| April 23rd 2024
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Norman Miller
News
| July 17th 2023
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