Federal Tories call for special Commons study of Canada-U.S. relations
The federal Conservatives are calling for a special House of Commons committee devoted to Canada-U.S. relations.
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Clearview AI engaged in illegal ‘mass surveillance’ of Canadians, probe finds
The exact number of images of Canadians that were sucked into Clearview’s database is unknown, the commissioners said, but it is a “relative certainty” that it numbered in the millions.
Hydro-Québec CEO Sophie Brochu joins Conversations to talk clean energy futures
Sophie Brochu isn’t one to shy away from a fight, and now the president and chief executive officer of Hydro-Québec is facing two: both climate change and a cantankerous oil and gas industry determined to go kicking and screaming into obscurity.
Trudeau and U.S. Vice-President Kamala Harris talk about COVID and Buy American
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke by phone today with U.S. Vice-President Kamala Harris, her first call with a foreign leader since taking office.
Michigan gives green light on Enbridge Line 5 tunnel permits
Michigan's environmental agency said Friday it has approved construction of an underground tunnel to house a replacement for a controversial oil pipeline in a channel linking two of the Great Lakes.
General Motors plans to go largely electric by 2035
General Motors has set a goal of making the vast majority of the vehicles it produces electric by 2035, and the entire company carbon neutral, including operations, five years after that.
If Canada can survive Trump, it can handle new Buy American regime: Trudeau
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says after the last four years, he's confident Canada can safely navigate the perils of Joe Biden’s new protectionist Buy American regime.
Biden to pause oil and gas sales on public lands: AP sources
President Joe Biden is set to announce a wide-ranging moratorium on new oil and gas leasing on U.S. lands, as his administration moves quickly to reverse Trump administration policies on energy and the environment and address climate change.
Keystone XL denial will hurt communities, Indigenous business coalition leader says
The cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline by U.S. President Joe Biden is a major setback for Canadian Indigenous people, says the leader of a group promoting their participation in oil and gas development as a solution to poverty on reserves.
Montreal students at Kamala Harris's alma mater say she is an inspiration
Students at Montreal's Westmount High School spent on Wednesday, January 20, 2021, morning watching a former graduate ascend to one of the highest political offices in the world, with Kamala Harris's new post as U.S. vice-president sending a message that nothing is beyond reach.
Biden's first foreign-leader call is with Trudeau and Keystone XL is on the agenda
If Joe Biden's decision to kill off Keystone XL is supposed to sound the death knell for Canada-U.S. relations, you wouldn't know it from the newly minted president's call sheet.
Anxiety gives way to elation as Trump takes off, Biden takes over as president
U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris, the first woman and person of colour to hold the title, took the oath of office Wednesday on the very spot where Trump's own supporters tried to lay waste to Capitol Hill.
Trudeau says he'll fight to persuade U.S. about merits of Keystone XL pipeline
Canada won't stop trying to convince Joe Biden of the merits of Keystone XL, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau insisted on Tuesday, January 19, 2021, despite reports the U.S. president-elect appears poised to sign the pipeline project's death warrant.
In Canada, the dog whistle is fainter — but pay attention
Democracies are fragile and can fail when power-hungry leaders practise dog-whistle politics, writes Andrea Reimer.
