Carl Meyer, Mike De Souza
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News, Energy, Politics
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June 20th 2018
A disappointed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is planning an intervention in Ontario after Doug Ford announced he was abandoning his province's commitment to a national climate change plan.
Lunenburg town council is taking a stand after recent government approval of British Petroleum’s deepwater drilling project 300 kilometres off the coast from this picturesque Nova Scotia community, a UNESCO world heritage site with an economy dependent on tourism and fish.
"I can’t imagine what the families who are living through this are enduring," said the prime minister, adding "this is not the way we do things in Canada."
Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale must fix Canada's broken immigration detention system without putting human rights up for negotiation in the court of public opinion.
An executive responsible for "transparency" at Canada's pipeline regulator, the National Energy Board, has resigned following an unsuccessful hunt for a National Observer reporter’s sources.
An executive at Canada’s pipeline regulator apologized to staff for hiring a private security firm to investigate staff after realizing the results of the unsuccessful "witch hunt" were about to be made public.
The National Energy Board's chief operating officer, Josée Touchette, has left the regulator to accept an executive job with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris. Back in Calgary, its NEB's executive in charge of "transparency" has taken a mysterious extended leave of absence.
The federal government is basking in the glow of its newly realized plan to legalize marijuana, but it is reminding Canadians that pot remains illegal in this country until the Cannabis Act goes into effect.
