Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says neither he nor his office ever "directed" Jody Wilson-Raybould to intervene in the prosecution of troubled SNC-Lavalin Group, following a report that said his office had pressured her to do so.
Canada's most populous province is proposing to reduce the mandatory reporting of carbon pollution by industry. Premier Doug Ford's government in Ontario said on Thursday that it was "streamlining and updating" its greenhouse gas emissions program "to reduce unnecessary costs and regulatory burden."
Retired lawyer David Gooderham purposely got himself arrested on the front lines of protest against the Trans Mountain pipeline in a bid to get a court to hear a “defence of necessity” on climate science and the impact of Canada’s pipeline policies.
“I guess that's something that wouldn't have fazed me at all if the Harper government was still in power,” the public servant told National Observer. “But given the change in government, seeing as how we were told to provide serious advice, I was rather shocked at being given that kind of direction. It's not something that I would have expected from a Liberal government.”
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee says his state shares concerns with British Columbia about the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion and will continue to voice its objections any way it can.
The early cash-out of millions of dollars in stock options is being offered on top of about $3.9 million in bonuses offered to three of the top executives from Kinder Morgan Canada, the company said in a proxy document submitted to the U.S. securities regulator.
The White Pines Wind Project was a decade in the making, pitting neighbour against neighbour in the southern township of Prince Edward County. It all took only two weeks to unravel with newly-minted Premier Doug Ford at the helm of the Ontario government.
Alberta will work with Indigenous groups in the province's remote northeast corner on what the government says will be Canada's largest off-the-grid solar power project.
Democrats launched a sweeping plan Thursday to transform the U.S. economy to combat climate change and create thousands of jobs in renewable energy, signalling its likely elevation as a central campaign issue in 2020 despite President Donald Trump's failure to mention climate change in his State of the Union address.
Canada's chief electoral officer says there's not much his independent agency can do to counter fake news circulated about a candidate in the midst of an election.
