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Stephen Harper’s government withholds details of $16-million PR campaign for...
OTTAWA — The Harper government is declining to explain how and where it is spending millions of taxpayer dollars on advertising to promote oil, gas and pipeline companies as well as other Canadian...
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Toronto artist Franke James says Harper government monitored her climate...
OTTAWA – More than two dozen senior officials and diplomats in Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative government monitored information about a Toronto artist over her criticism of the oil and gas...
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New York prepares for effects of climate change
The projections paint an unsettling picture of New York’s future: A city where in a few decades, 800,000 people could be living in a flood zone that would cover a quarter of the land, and as many...
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Federal government planned ‘strong’ PR campaign to promote oil industry
OTTAWA — Days before announcing Canada would withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, the federal government drafted plans for a “strong and coordinated” public relations campaign and major...
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Canadian spy agency, top security officials invited to ‘secret’ meeting on...
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s national security adviser Stephen Rigby turned down a request to join a secret meeting attended by other senior government officials invited last summer to plan...
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Calgary floods launch climate change and oilsands debate again
It took no longer than it takes to say the word “tweet” before Twitter had sprung to life connecting the extraordinary floods in southern Alberta with climate change and oilsands. Environmental...
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Keystone pipeline supporters and foes read Obama’s climate-change speech...
WASHINGTON – In a lengthy outdoor speech on the hottest, most humid day of summer, a brow-mopping U.S. President Barack Obama declared Tuesday that he will approve the construction of the Keystone XL...
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Smoke and mirrors cloak carbon emissions bottom line
It seems unlikely that poor Jacques Gourde, the hapless backbencher from Quebec, would have the heft to cripple Canada’s economy. But if you follow the chain of logic from the House of Commons, to...
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Climate change play takes jabs at human nature and politics
OTTAWA- A new play in the nation’s capital is taking some playful jabs at human nature in the face of climate change. Emissions: A Climate Comedy opened with a pair of shows last weekend at the Ottawa...
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Unprecedented ocean acidification from greenhouse gases putting Canadian...
OTTAWA – Canada’s Atlantic waters may be “particularly vulnerable” to increased carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere that are causing “unprecedented” acidification of the planet’s oceans, says a...
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Stephen Harper requested list of enemy lobby groups, bureaucrats and...
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s office asked Conservative political staffers to develop lists of “enemy” lobby groups, as well as troublesome bureaucrats and reporters to avoid as part of...
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Unfinished oil and gas pollution rules greet Stephen Harper’s new environment...
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Stephen Harper latest environment minister, Leona Aglukkaq, could bring some front-line views of the impacts of global warming on her home in Canada’s North to the federal...
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Major threats to biodiversity loom on Canadian economy: federal briefings
OTTAWA — Environment Canada is developing a new strategy, in the midst of multimillion-dollar cuts, to expand its capacity to evaluate the economic value of natural ecosystems, parks and wildlife,...
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Premiers hope to challenge federal infrastructure and job training programs...
OTTAWA — The Alberta government is hoping to kickstart a new discussion among federal and provincial governments about investments in more resilient infrastructure in the wake of devastating floods...
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U.S. environmentalists hold Obama’s feet to the fire on Keystone XL
WASHINGTON – The Keystone XL pipeline will open the floodgates for a huge expansion of the oilsands that will increase carbon pollution by up to 1.2 billion tonnes over its 50-year life, according to a...
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Premiers urge Stephen Harper to call public inquiry over missing aboriginal...
NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, Ont. — Canada‘s premiers are joining aboriginal leaders in calling for a public inquiry into missing indigenous women in this country. “It speaks to the most vulnerable people in...
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The North Pole is now a lake
The North Pole, that great bastion of eternal cold and barren ice, is a lake. It’s a shallow lake. It’s a cold lake. But it is, actually, a lake. According to the North Pole Environmental Observatory,...
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Premiers reject Stephen Harper’s job training plan, fearing it will cause damage
NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, Ont. — Canada’s 13 provincial and territorial premiers unanimously rejected Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s new job training plan Thursday, arguing that its design flaws could...
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Alberta, B.C. launch plan to expand oil, gas exports
NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, Ont. – The premiers of British Columbia and Alberta have launched a joint plan to expand exports of oil, gas and other resources, laying the groundwork for new pipeline projects to...
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