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When Prime Minister Mark Carney announced that the feds would be interested in pipeline projects for “decarbonized oil,” the folks at the Pathways Alliance must have felt their hearts skip a beat. The oilsands consortium took it as a sign that the federal government might embrace a pitch by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith to approve a new pipeline to the...
Canada is weakening environmental safeguards and threatening relationships with the country’s First Nations in a mad rush to generate new resource-extraction developments. If steps aren’t taken quickly to bring First Nations onside with major projects, Canada should prepare for strained relations and a barrage of court injunctions and blockades with enormous power to slow industry.
If there is one thing BC and Alberta can’t see eye to eye on, it’s oil pipelines. The incessant demands by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith for another oil pipeline to the West Coast spells nothing but trouble for her BC counterpart, David Eby. Compared to folks on the Prairies, British Columbians aren’t keen on pipelines carrying heavy crude cutting across...
In the rush to grow Canada’s economy by exploiting more of our natural resources, moves are afoot to pare back environmental impact assessments that slow or sometimes even block resource and industrial development. During the election campaign, the now-ruling Liberals promised to cut the decision time on projects from five years to a maximum of two. Similarly, BC is about...
With Jagmeet Singh out and the federal NDP’s seat count now so low that the party is begging for official party status, the choice for the party’s next leader could make the difference between death and survival. Canada’s social democratic party needs someone who can recapture the loyalty of blue-collar voters snatched by Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives in the most recent...
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. Although Poilievre referenced the ongoing trade war and sovereignty threats...
Betrayed. Angry. And above all, anxious. That’s the general feeling among Canadians this week as the U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods kicked in. A good friend of mine, a usually unflappable high-placed business person, woke up to a panic attack Monday morning. Another friend’s blood pressure spiked and has been put on medication until it calms down. Yet another friend...