Murray Wood: Trump attacked Iran with no plan
It's been two weeks of mixed messaging from Donald Trump on the U.S. and Israeli war with Iran. Murray Wood wants to kno...
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Time is now for 'stock-taking' to ensure robust North American supply chains: experts
WASHINGTON - Last year's confluence of COVID-19 and Donald Trump exposed the urgent need to reinvent North America, experts across the continent agreed Tuesday as they explored how best to fortify its...
Mar 02, 2021
Canada can't 'power past coal' and keep exporting it, environment group says
OTTAWA - Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson says there is no path to eliminating greenhouse-gas emissions that doesn't include phasing out coal power, but critics say Canada's leadership is taint...
Mar 02, 2021
Quebec river granted legal rights as part of global 'personhood' movement
MONTREAL - With its kilometres of rapids and deep blue waters winding through Quebec's Cote-Nord region, the Magpie river has long been a culturally significant spot for the Innu of Ekuanitshit. Now t...
Feb 27, 2021
A timeline of events in British Columbia's Site C dam project
VANCOUVER - A chronology of events in British Columbia's Site C hydroelectric dam project: Late 1950s: The location for a third dam on the Peace River is first looked at after the locations of WAC Ben...
Feb 26, 2021
British Columbia's Site C dam to cost $16 billion, delayed until 2025
VICTORIA - British Columbia Premier John Horgan says completing the Site C dam is in the best interests of residents, despite the project's price tag ballooning to $16 billion and completion date stre...
Feb 26, 2021
Trudeau, Blinken tight-lipped on two Michaels as U.S. secretary of state Zooms Canada
WASHINGTON - Neither Canada's prime minister nor the U.S. secretary of state were showing their diplomatic cards Friday as the two countries discussed the plight of two Canadians languishing behind ba...
Feb 26, 2021
Logging delay agreement for B.C. old-growth tree stand helps endangered spotted owls
An agreement to delay logging in an old-growth stand of British Columbia forest has given a one-year reprieve to one of Canada's most endangered species. Governments now have to come up with a permane...
Feb 25, 2021
U.S. secretary of state plans virtual visits Friday with Trudeau, Garneau, Mexico
WASHINGTON - Antony Blinken will meet virtually Friday with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau in a day of online diplomacy for the U.S. secretary of state. Blinke...
Feb 25, 2021
Pandemic increased direct aid to fossil fuel producers, new study shows
OTTAWA - A new report suggests the economic impact of the pandemic led to a massive increase in federal aid to Canada's oilpatch. But the annual inventory of fossil fuel subsidies published by the Int...
Feb 25, 2021
Presidential envoy John Kerry, Canada's Wilkinson discuss shared climate priorities
WASHINGTON - Canada and the United States will push each other toward more ambitious climate goals, Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said Wednesday after a meeting with special envoy John Kerry...
Feb 24, 2021
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8:30 - There's a lot going on in the world and in Canada. We're keeping a close eye on the Liberal government following ...