Economic update will outline deficit, new border security package
Dec 16, 2024 · The Liberal government in Ottawa is set to unveil its fall economic update today, its first spending package since Donald Trump won the November presidential election.
'Concrete revolution' takes aim at construction’s worst polluter
Sep 17, 2024 · “No shortage of ideas” Concrete has been used in construction for millennia, from the dome of the Pantheon in ancient Rome to the world’s biggest hydropower project, China’s Three Gorges Dam – and closer to home in the iconic contour base of Toronto’s CN Tower.. Cement makes up only 10-15 per cent of a typical concrete mix, but because it’s manufactured using fossil-fuel fired ...
Strange Bedfellows: Russia, North Korea, and the war in Ukraine
Nov 26, 2024 · A new chapter has unfolded in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Russia has now reached an agreement with North Korea to led its troops to the war. The Pentagon says there are 10,000 troops being trained in Russia. North Korea hasn’t deployed troops anywhere outside of its borders since the Korean ...
Facing an imminent deadline, nations struggle to agree on a …
Nov 20, 2024 · As a workaround, Ecuador Ambassador Luis Vayas Valdivieso, who will chair the upcoming United Nations meeting to be held from Nov. 25 to Dec. 1 in Busan, South Korea, has developed a shorter, streamlined draft called a “non-paper” because of its unofficial status. It leaves key treaty provisions without suggested text.
Documents reveal Canada's early efforts to save orcas from ...
Nov 7, 2024 · Fisheries and Oceans Canada has launched measures to try and protect endangered orcas on the West Coast from rising risk of oil spills, indicate federal documents obtained by Canada’s National Observer through access-to-information legislation.. The fisheries department (DFO) has invested in vessels and acoustic gear, drafted an operating procedure for fishery officers, maintains community ...
Canada's National Observer: Climate News
Dec 12, 2024 · Canada's National Observer publishes journalism in the public interest. Award-winning investigative journalism and daily news reporting on climate change, energy, the environment and politics, along with a Special Reports …
Vancouver has one last chance to get the gas question right
Nov 25, 2024 · The most forward-thinking places in the world recognize this and are turning off the gas taps. New York became the first U.S. state to ban gas stoves and heating in most new buildings in 2023 and California has a plan to follow suit by 2030.. Here at home, Quebec recently decided to phase out fossil-based natural gas heating in all homes by 2040. And other B.C. municipalities including ...
Toronto cyclists mount resistance to Ford's war against bike lanes
Oct 24, 2024 · “I just want them to get to school safely and get home safely: I think every parent wants that,” Bell said. Bell says Ford is playing a game of distraction to fuel a culture war pitting drivers against cyclists to avoid attention to the provincial government’s failures on housing, healthcare and traffic congestion.
Alberta UCP to vote on celebrating CO2, and not recognizing it as ...
Oct 18, 2024 · While Smith does not deny climate change, the province is considering a second set of limitations on renewable energy development and opposes all federal climate policies from the carbon price to far less controversial methane reduction targets.. Legault said the resolution is “already de facto policy,” pointing to Smith’s decision to …
Canada’s immigration crisis has only just begun
Oct 22, 2024 · None of this is going to end well if Canada continues down this path. Our long-term prosperity depends on our ability to effectively integrate immigrants, who will account for all of our country’s population growth by 2030. That population growth is crucial to mitigating the economic and fiscal effects of a rapidly aging population, and immigration will play a …