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Oct 21, 2024 | 
nationalobserver.com | Trevor Chittick
The outcome of British Columbia's election was unclear after a close race between the NDP and the B.C. Conservatives, with the Greens poised to play a role in a potential minority government. Here's what the party leaders said on Saturday's election night. "We don't know what the final count is going to be in the province, but what we do know is that there was a clear majority for the progressive values.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
nationalobserver.com | Paola Loriggio |Trevor Chittick |Will Greaves
Three tobacco giants would pay close to $25 billion to provinces and territories and more than $4 billion to tens of thousands of Quebec smokers and their loved ones as part of a newly proposed deal in a corporate restructuring process triggered by a long-running legal battle. A proposed plan of arrangement developed through mediation was filed in an Ontario court Thursday after a prolonged five-year process.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
nationalobserver.com | Brenna Owen |Max Fawcett |Trevor Chittick
British Columbia voters face no shortage of policies when it comes to tackling the province's housing woes in the run-up to Saturday's election, with a clear choice for the next government's approach. David Eby's New Democrats say the housing market on its own will not deliver the homes people need, while B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad says government is part of the problem and B.C. needs to "unleash" the potential of the private sector.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
nationalobserver.com | Rianna Lim |Trevor Chittick
As tensions escalate between India and Canada, some in the Indian diaspora say they’re concerned about how the situation might affect travel between the two countries. The federal government expelled six Indian diplomats on Monday after the RCMP said it had credible evidence that Indian agents played a role in violent crimes on Canadian soil, including extortion, coercion and murder of Canadian citizens.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
nationalobserver.com | Jim Bronskill |Trevor Chittick
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is slated to testify today as a federal inquiry into foreign interference finishes the latest phase of its work. The commission of inquiry is looking at the ability of institutions to detect and fend off the attempts of hostile states to meddle in Canadian affairs. Over the last several weeks it has heard from senior bureaucrats, police and intelligence officials, cabinet ministers and members of diaspora communities.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
nationalobserver.com | Damian Carrington |Will Greaves |Trevor Chittick
This story was originally published by The Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The destruction of global forests increased in 2023, and is higher than when 140 countries promised three years ago to halt deforestation by the end of the decade, an analysis shows. The rising demolition of the forests puts ambitions to halt the climate crisis and stem the huge worldwide losses of wildlife even further from reach, the researchers warn.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
nationalobserver.com | Jeremy Simes |Max Fawcett |Trevor Chittick
Saskatchewan Party Leader Scott Moe says residents would continue to be exempt from paying the federal carbon levy on home heating if he's re-elected premier on Oct. 28. Moe says by not remitting the levy to Ottawa, the average household would save $480 next year. Earlier this year, the Saskatchewan government stopped paying the federal carbon charge on natural gas after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberals exempted home-heating oil users, who are mainly in Atlantic Canada, from paying.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
nationalobserver.com | Trevor Chittick
It's the last week of the British Columbia election campaign after a busy long weekend of promises for the B.C. Conservatives, including a new Children's Hospital for Surrey. B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad is expected to explain how he's going to pay for all his promises, from the so-called Rustad rebate to exempt up to $3,000 a month of rent or mortgage payments from taxes, to the plan to eliminate the carbon tax.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
nationalobserver.com | Dylan Robertson |Will Greaves |Trevor Chittick
Canada's decision to expel New Delhi's top envoy and five other diplomats is front-page news in India, as an analyst wonders how other countries will respond. On Monday, the RCMP warned the public about a rash of crimes including murder, extortion and coercion that the force links to Indian government agents. The RCMP and other Canadian officials presented evidence to India earlier this past weekend, but they say New Delhi refused to co-operate in police investigations.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
nationalobserver.com | Abdul Matin Sarfraz |Trevor Chittick
Charging electric vehicles in off-peak hours could ease grid pressure and lower charging costs for drivers. A new pilot program in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) is testing a mobile app that does just that. The program, led by San Francisco-based Optiwatt and funded by The Atmospheric Fund (TAF), began in December 2023 and runs till the end of the year.
