Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami serves up its sixth annual A Taste of the Arctic
The Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, the national voice of Inuit in Canada, hosted its sixth annual A Taste of the Arctic event at the National Arts Centre last Monday night. It was a packed house with around 500 attendees for the marquee event, but, despite the new president of ITK Natan Obed’s charm offensive, the event slightly underwhelmed, […]
Trudeau-Obama meeting should focus on Arctic
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Barack Obama will hold their first formal summit tomorrow, and are expected to sign a continental environmental and climate change strategy. But at the top of their agenda must be the need to address a global crisis—the unraveling of the Arctic due to climate change. For millennia, […]
East, West on same side of pipeline debate
When all is said and done, there is no rational reason for this week’s climate-change gathering of first ministers in Vancouver to feature an East-West brawl over pipelines. Unless the premiers of the energy-producing provinces are irresistibly inclined to lead a charge on windmills, they have no reason to get on their high horses in […]
Your handy, dandy guide to this session’s best Parliament Hill parties
Hillites: prepare to have fun this session because a taste of social Ottawa is coming at you, fast and furious. Given the uncertainty around when the 42nd Parliament would start, many fall events were delayed until the new year, so now after a quiet fall, the winter and spring events calendar is filling up. So, wipe the […]
Aboriginal policy to assimilate, civilize, Christianize, not applied in uniform manner: TRC report
In an effort to shed light on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s findings on Canada’s Indian residential school system, The Hill Times is running excerpts from the final report over the next few days. This excerpt gives an overview of the experience specifically for Inuit and those in Canada’s North who suffered at residential schools. […]
Castles in the air: Canada’s unexploitable hydrocarbon ‘resources’
Seventy-five per cent of Canada’s existing oil reserves, and 99 per cent of the known bitumen resource (Remaining Ultimately Recoverable Resources) will remain in the ground by 2050, if climate change is to be limited to the internationally agreed target of 2.0 degrees of warming by the end of this century. These are the figures […]
Time to restart Canada’s energy conversation
Canada is an energy nation. We have some of the world’s largest reserves of oil, natural gas, coal, and uranium, and we’re a major producer of hydropower and other sources of renewable energy. The recent oil price shock—with its dramatic impacts on our dollar, our investment portfolios, our companies, and our public finances—is a sharp […]
Keystone and the tipping point away from fossil fuels
Last spring, when the U.S. State Department Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on Keystone XL was released, it was heralded by project boosters as the green light to approval. It was actually more of a flashing yellow. The EIS was dense and lengthy. It was a policy wonkish document. When the NEB report on Enbridge came […]
Responsible energy policy critical to Canada’s economic future
The Liberal Party of Canada supports the responsible development of Canada’s energy potential and recognizes the positive contribution our natural resources have on economic growth and job creation, especially for middle-class families. But we also understand that resource development must be done in an environmentally responsible, sustainable way and through consensus building. This is a […]
Canadians will be discussing energy in next federal election
When it comes to Canada’s energy sector and falling global oil prices, uncertainty is a word we will continue to hear often this year. As the winter freeze transitions into spring, Canadians have been wondering to what extent they will be impacted by lower oil prices, besides the promise of cheaper gas at the pumps. […]
