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Screen-shared vision: Biden-Trudeau meeting to feature common ground, old irritants
WASHINGTON - Call it the Screen-Shared Summit. Tuesday's bilateral meeting of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and President Joe Biden - a strictly virtual affair, thanks to COVID-19 - offers hope of a n...
Feb 22, 2021
'Trojan Horse:' Alberta to argue that federal assessment law unconstitutional
Alberta and its allies are in the province's highest court trying to have the federal government's environmental assessment act declared unconstitutional. "The Trojan Horse has now arrived," say argum...
Feb 22, 2021
Report says mandatory ship speeds required to protect right whales in Cabot Strait
OTTAWA - Voluntary speed restrictions in place for vessels passing through the Cabot Strait don't go far enough to protect endangered North Atlantic right whales, according to a newly released report....
Feb 22, 2021
Critics ask why no details on government plan for parks management
EDMONTON - The Alberta government has yet to release details on how it will "optimize" the province's parks by getting other people to run them. It's been almost a year since the plan was revealed in ...
Feb 22, 2021
Kenney says no new taxes as Alberta preps for another tough times pandemic budget
EDMONTON - On Thursday it's budget day in Alberta, a time that will cruelly and ironically remind residents that last year's projected eye-popping $6.8-billion deficit was actually the good old days. ...
Feb 21, 2021
Deep freeze, power crisis enveloping Texas sparks fresh climate-change falsehoods
WASHINGTON - The catastrophic cold snap that paralyzed the electrical grid in Texas has opened up a new front in the age-old battle between green-energy champions and their fossil-fuel rivals. One sid...
Feb 20, 2021
Federal plans to close fish farms stir emotions on Vancouver Island
VICTORIA - As a commercial fisherman and salmon farmer, James Walkus says he sees the merits of both industries and he's convinced the two can coexist. The 81-year-old Indigenous leader and entreprene...
Feb 20, 2021
Ethics committee rejects plan to move Quebec deer that were slated to be killed
MONTREAL - A plan to relocate deer from a Montreal-area park has fallen through after an ethics committee deemed the strategy unsafe. About half the white-tailed deer in Michel-Chartrand park were sla...
Feb 19, 2021
Head of new Indigenous committee aims for systemic change at Canada Energy Regulator
VANCOUVER - The chairman of a new Indigenous advisory committee at the Canada Energy Regulator says he wants to fix a system that has treated First Nations, Inuit and Metis people as an "afterthought....
Feb 18, 2021
Canadian government modifies North Atlantic right whale protection measures for 2021
FREDERICTON - The federal Fisheries Department will continue efforts this year to protect endangered North Atlantic right whales in Canadian waters, but it is making some changes to reduce the impact ...
Feb 18, 2021
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