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1 week ago | 
nationalobserver.com | Adrienne Tanner
With this week's announcement to wield the notwithstanding clause to ensure multiple murderers rot in jail, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre added yet another plank to his Trump 2.0 agenda.
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2 weeks ago | 
nationalobserver.com | Adrienne Tanner
So why did the Liberals and Conservatives take the high road to party integrity in all but those two cases? Dig a little deeper, and it's obvious the political fallout from losing the candidates who were instantly dumped was close to nil. They were expendable cannon fodder, running in ridings they were almost certain to lose. It was a different story in the case of Chiang and Gunn, who were both predicted to win.
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3 weeks ago | 
nationalobserver.com | Adrienne Tanner
Do these recent moves make Carney a sellout? Before anyone jumps to that conclusion, it's important to remember his background as someone who has spent the last five years pushing the banking world toward clean energy investments and examine the climate bona fides of the candidates running with him. You can tell a lot about a person by the company they keep. Carney has attracted a team of candidates who have put in boots-on-the-ground time pushing for a clean energy transition.
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3 weeks ago | 
nationalobserver.com | Adrienne Tanner
To hear Pierre Poilievre talk, as I did along with about 5,000 others in a steamy Surrey warehouse last night, the Conservative leader is running against two opponents in his bid to become prime minister: Mark Carney, Canada's current PM and Steven Guilbeault, Canada's former environment and climate change minister.
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1 month ago | 
nationalobserver.com | Adrienne Tanner
Ottawa says it is contributing up to $200 million toward the Cedar LNG project on the northern B.C. coast. The money is coming through the Strategic Innovation Fund, which falls under the Innovation, Science and Economic Development ministry. The floating liquefied natural gas processing facility and marine export terminal in Kitimat, B.C., has a price tag of almost $6 billion and is set to start up in 2028.
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1 month ago | 
nationalobserver.com | Adrienne Tanner
If the predictions are correct, Prime Minister Mark Carney will call an election this weekend, sending voters to the polls as early as April 28. Media outlets are already in high gear, making coverage plans and budgeting for the significant related costs. This time, the price tag will be lower; the Conservatives announced this week that media are not welcome on Pierre Poilievre's campaign voyage.
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1 month ago | 
nationalobserver.com | Oliver Milman |Adrienne Tanner
This story was originally published by The Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Trump administration is stripping away support for scientific research in the US and overseas that contains a word it finds particularly inconvenient: “climate.”The US government is withdrawing grants and other support for research that even references the climate crisis, academics have said, amid Donald Trump’s blitzkrieg upon environmental regulations and clean-energy development.
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2 months ago | 
nationalobserver.com | Moira Donovan |Adrienne Tanner
This story was originally published by bioGraphic and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaborationThe Gulf of Maine is home to one of the most valuable fisheries in the United States. Every year, American lobsters (Homarus americanus) from the gulf fuel a multibillion-dollar industry, buoying fishing communities across New England and across the border into Atlantic Canada. The Gulf of Maine is also heating up faster than almost any other marine environment on Earth.
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2 months ago | 
nationalobserver.com | Anja Karadeglija |Adrienne Tanner |Max Fawcett
Seventy per cent of Canadians are in favour of dollar-for-dollar retaliatory tariffs on the United States, a new poll suggests. Nearly half of respondents to the Leger poll — 45 per cent — said they were strongly in favour of such tariffs, while 25 per cent said they were somewhat in favour. U.S. President Donald Trump has pledged to impose steep tariffs on imports from Canada and other countries.
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2 months ago | 
nationalobserver.com | Darryl Greer |Adrienne Tanner |Max Fawcett
The federal government is going to court to force a Toronto company to sell a $34-million stake in a Calgary-based lithium firm that it bought off a Chinese company. The government had already deemed the previous Chinese owner's investment in Lithium Chile Inc. to be harmful to national security, and it says in a Federal Court application that the new buyer has failed to co-operate with efforts to prove it isn't owned or influenced by China's government either.
