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Sep 26, 2024 | 
nationalobserver.com | Richard Littlemore |Chris Hatch |John Woodside |Andy Kubrin
What do you do when the only political party that might have slowed our headlong rush to climate catastrophe completely caves on the single issue that most threatens human habitability on planet Earth? I live on the fringe. Okay, not true. I live in a smallish condo in a prosperous Vancouver neighbourhood, the kind of place where a socially progressive politician might usually attract friendly smiles, but very few votes. I’m also a liberal — though, emphatically, not a Liberal.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
nationalobserver.com | Andy Kubrin |Jim Morris |Emyle Watkins
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. This story is a collaboration between Public Health Watch, WBFO and Inside Climate News. For at least 15 years, a Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. chemical plant in Niagara Falls, New York, has been sending a pollutant that causes bladder cancer into the air at levels 1,000 percent higher than what state regulators nowconsider safe for the public to breathe, documents show.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
nationalobserver.com | Andy Kubrin
A 33-day provincial election campaign is expected to officially get started today in New Brunswick. Progressive Conservative Premier Blaine Higgs has said he plans to visit Lt.-Gov. Brenda Murphy this morning to have the legislature dissolved. Higgs, a 70-year-old former oil executive, is seeking a third term in office, having led the province since 2018. The campaign ahead of the Oct.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
nationalobserver.com | Morgan Lowrie |Andy Kubrin |Max Fawcett
Family members of patients allegedly brainwashed decades ago at a Montreal psychiatric hospital are afraid they're running out of time to get compensation because the federal government and McGill University have filed motions to dismiss their lawsuit.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
nationalobserver.com | Andy Kubrin
The latest phase of a federal inquiry into foreign interference is set to kick off today with remarks from commissioner Marie-Josée Hogue. Several weeks of public hearings will focus on the capacity of federal agencies to detect, deter and counter foreign interference. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and key government officials took part in hearings earlier this year as the inquiry explored allegations that Beijing tried to meddle in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
nationalobserver.com | Matthew Daly |Andy Kubrin
Even as she promoted her efforts to boost clean energy, Vice President Kamala Harris said in Tuesday's debate that the Biden-Harris administration has overseen “the largest increase in domestic oil production in history because of an approach that recognizes that we cannot over rely on foreign oil.″ The comment by Harris, a longtime climate hawk who backed the original Green New Deal, surprised supporters and opponents alike — and conflicted with frequent boasts by Harris and President Joe...
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
nationalobserver.com | Hina Alam |Andy Kubrin
Provincial leaders across Canada are taking turns criticizing the federal Liberal government's proposal to alleviate immigration pressure on Quebec and Ontario by resettling asylum seekers more equitably across the country. New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs set the ball in motion when he told the Greater Moncton Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday that Ottawa was proposing the province take in 4,600 asylum seekers without providing financial assistance.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
nationalobserver.com | Adrienne Tanner |Andy Kubrin |Max Fawcett
The Insurance Bureau of Canada says a severe hail storm that battered Calgary last month is the second-costliest event in Canadian history. The bureau says the initial damage estimates come from Catastrophe Indices and Quantification Inc., which collects information on losses from disasters. It says the storm racked up nearly $2.8 billion in insured losses and is second only to the 2016 wildfire in Fort McMurray. The Aug.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
nationalobserver.com | Andy Kubrin |Stuart Trew |Achim Hurrelmann
The odd thing about our carbon tax kerfuffle is that it unfolds as if Canada were the only nation on earth. “Axe the tax,” cry Conservatives, criticizing carbon pricing as a government tax grab and inflation booster. Liberals point out in response that most taxpayers receive rebates exceeding what they paid in the first place. Yet neither camp draws a connection between carbon pricing and international trade — a vital driver of Canada’s economy.
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May 16, 2024 | 
nationalobserver.com | Andy Kubrin
Carbon pricing in Canada is under attack. Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre has made his “axe the tax” rhetoric the centrepiece of his campaign to return the Conservatives to power. In the provinces, , including Danielle Smith of Alberta, Saskatchewan's Scott Moe, Nova Scotia's Tim Houston and Blaine Higgs from New Brunswick, staunchly oppose the consumer carbon price. In April, protests snarled traffic on the Trans-Canada. This concerted demonization of carbon pricing is having an effect.
