Is Canada’s war on hydrogen finally over?
In 2020, Canada announced its Hydrogen Strategy, timely in the critical need to dramatically change the business-as-usual approach to harnessing, distributing, and using our energy resources in the face of extreme weather conditions and global warming caused by human activities. Green hydrogen can be produced via water electrolysis powered from renewable energy, particularly during times […]
Feds seek parliamentary approval for $13.2-billion in spending to round out fiscal year
The federal government has tabled its final spending adjustments for the 2021-22 fiscal year, laying out an additional $17.1-billion in spending authority across 75 government departments or agencies. The government is seeking Parliament’s approval for $13.2-billion in new spending authority, while providing details on an additional $3.9-billion in new spending that it already has authority […]
Canada’s greater potential, bigger strengths are hydrogen and fuel cells technology
TORONTO—If it plays its cards right, Canada should benefit much more from pursuing an aggressive strategy for hydrogen and fuel cells than it would from pinning its hopes on electric vehicle battery plants and battery-ready minerals. This is not an either-or-choice. We should do what we can to be part of the battery-powered future. But […]
Canada’s tax system needs top-to-bottom overhaul
The next federal budget is looming and there is the potential for more tax credits and expenditures. By the Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada’s count, the current government has more than 30 election campaign promises to fulfill where tax policy is concerned, including a raft of new or expanded personal tax credits and deductions aimed […]
Aligning finances to the new climate reality: fix finance, fix the climate
Our way of life has pushed the current system to its limits. The global demand for material resources is expected to double by 2060, causing environmental damage, an increase in greenhouse gas emissions and an increase in the production of waste and associated pollution. Our current linear extractive economy was not designed to include the […]
Winter House sitting will be like ‘political hunger games’ between O’Toole and Trudeau, say pollsters
With both the Conservatives and Liberals running neck and neck in public opinion polls and the NDP making significant gains, this winter House session is expected to be a tough one as the two national parties try to regain their lost momentum, say pollsters. “This upcoming Parliament is going to be a political hunger games […]
Politics This Morning: The House returns, with a soundtrack
Good Monday morning, The virtual hallways of Parliament Hill will be busy today as the House returns from the winter break in a hybrid format. MPs will sit every weekday from now until Friday, Feb. 18. The Hill Times calendar has the exact dates for all 26 weeks of scheduled sitting for 2022. Government House […]
Back in business: House Committees primed to play catch up with busy agendas
From grilling the head of Air Canada to embarking on pre-budget consultations to exploring the ethics of facial recognition technology, many House Committees will hit the ground running when Parliament returns at the end of the month. Committee work was disrupted during the previous Parliament, with many sitting dormant for six months starting in mid-March […]
Turning a blind eye to economic violence
OTTAWA—The Republicans of the North have never met a point they didn’t bludgeon, nor a fact they didn’t massage into terror. It’s understandable that the Conservatives want to jump on the inflation bandwagon, since people are feeling the pinch of rising grocery prices, reduced aggregate supply due to the pandemic, and many of them rushed […]
‘Against the flow’: critics question move by Canada’s Pension Plan Investment fund to keep supporting big polluters
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, which manages an investment fund of approximately $541.5-billion for more than 20 million contributors and beneficiaries of the CPP, is making both an ethical and financial mistake, according to one Bloc MP, by continuing to invest in high-emitting businesses as long as those businesses commit to decarbonizing over the […]
