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Canada lobbying American administration as pipeline delays mount | CBC News
Amarjeet Sohi met with U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry on Wednesday in Houston at the CERAWeek energy conference. The focus was on TransCanada’s Keystone XL project and Enbridge’s Line 3 replacement pipeline. #cdnpoli
Thousands of Canadians are on the hook for CPP overpayments after Ottawa fixes IT error | CBC News
“ESDC has resolved these issues and will reinstate the collection of debts …”
A
parallel technical glitch is also preventing the collection of Old Age
Security (OAS) overpayments on inactive accounts, something which the
department is still working to resolve.
Air pollution is killing twice as many people as previously thought
New research, published in the European Heart Journal,indicates that while air pollution hits the lungs first, its impact via
the bloodstream on heart disease and strokes is is responsible for
twice as many deaths as respiratory diseases.
the bloodstream on heart disease and strokes is is responsible for
twice as many deaths as respiratory diseases.
Prof Jos
Lelieveld of the Max-Plank Institute for Chemistry in Mainz and also
part of the team, said: “Since most air pollutants come from the burning
of fossil fuels, we need to switch to other sources of energy urgently.
When we use clean, renewable energy, we are not just fulfilling the
Paris agreement to mitigate the effects of climate change, we could also
reduce air pollution-related death rates by up to 55%.”
Paul Jenkinson, spokesperson for SuNNS notes, “the Petition makes the
Provincial government aware that a large part of the local population is
opposed to placing a gold mine in the French River Watershed/ Warwick
Mountain area, the sole source of water for the town of Tatamagouche”.
Additionally, Jenkinson notes, “the Municipality of Colchester County
has initiated a process whereby the Minister of the Environment will be
asked to grant Protected Status to this sole water source specifically
closing the area off to gold mining”.