Mike De Souza, Matthew McClure
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News, Energy, Politics
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January 31st 2019
The Supreme Court of Canada delivered its long-anticipated decision, with important implications for the oilpatch, in Ottawa on Jan. 31, 2019.
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Alberta's energy minister says taxpayers are "better protected" thanks to a Supreme Court of Canada decision Thursday that prioritized clean up costs for abandoned oil and gas wells before debts to creditors when companies go bankrupt. But the NDP government still doesn't have a cleanup plan for more than 80,000 inactive sites.
Matthew McClure
News, Energy, Politics
| January 31st 2019
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European colonization of the Americas resulted in the killing of so many native people that it transformed the environment and caused the Earth’s climate to cool down, new research has found.
Oliver Milman
News, Energy, Politics
| January 31st 2019
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The Trudeau government faces a significant risk of having overpaid for the Trans Mountain pipeline project, having shelled out "at the higher end" of its value, leaving virtually no room for an expected construction delay, possible cost overruns or other factors, says Canada's parliamentary watchdog.
Carl Meyer
News, Energy, Politics
| January 31st 2019
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The secret overtures offering a financial backstop to Kinder Morgan began in March, even though the Canadian government had made it clear, during its early negotiations with the Texas multinational, that it didn't want to buy the pipeline expansion project, says a new document filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Mike De Souza
Analysis, Energy, Politics
| August 8th 2018
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An NDP victory in a crucial byelection has prompted political soul-searching in British Columbia, with the Opposition Liberals hoping to revitalize their party while the Greens distance themselves from the New Democrats.
Laura Kane
News, Politics
| February 1st 2019
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Desmond Cole writes that in the rare moments we are forced to see the horrors of our jails, as in the death of Soleiman Faqiri, we find it hard to pretend their purpose is safety or self-reflection or rehabilitation.
Desmond Cole
Opinion
| February 1st 2019
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Amid mounting calls to phase out fossil fuels in the face of rapidly worsening climate change, the United States is ramping up oil and gas drilling faster than any other country, threatening to add 1,000 coal plants’ worth of planet-warming gases by the middle of the century, according to a report released Wednesday.
Alexander C. Kaufman
News, US News
| January 31st 2019
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Every year, between 600 and 800 moose are killed in Alaska by cars, leaving up to 250,000 pounds of organic, free-range meat on the road. State troopers who respond to these collisions keep a list of charities and families who have agreed to drive to the scene of an accident at any time, in any weather, to haul away and butcher the body.
Ella Jacobson
News
| January 31st 2019
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Vice-Admiral Mark Norman's lawyer has raised the prospect that government officials used several more undisclosed terms to refer to her client in internal communications and hide any paper trial.
Lee Berthiaume
News, Politics
| February 1st 2019
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Indigenous women are probably not the only ones who have been coerced into being sterilized without wanting to be, an assistant deputy minister at Health Canada told the House of Commons' health committee on Thursday, January 31, 2019.
Kristy Kirkup
News, Politics
| February 1st 2019
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The truck driver who caused the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash stood silently for a moment, steadied himself with his hands on a table, then took responsibility for killing 16 people and injuring 13 others.
Chris Purdy, Bill Graveland
News, Politics
| February 1st 2019
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New Brunswick's Tory premier is vowing to balance the current books and next year's budget, without raising taxes, in an effort to get the province's finances under control and lessen reliance on federal transfers.
Kevin Bissett
News, Politics
| February 1st 2019
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