Canada’s environment policy could benefit from a Biden presidency: experts: Gerald Butts, vice-chairman at the political-risk consultancy
Eurasia Group and former principal secretary to Prime Minister Justin
Trudeau, said Biden’s climate policies are the most aggressive any
American presidential candidate has ever proposed.

That includes eliminating fossil fuels from the U.S. power grid by
2050, and using the power of the federal procurement system to spur
growth in electric vehicles.

Butts said Biden’s plan would not
only put pressure on the world, including Canada, to up its climate
game, it opens a “big opportunity to grow the Canadian clean energy and
clean-tech footprint in the United States.”

Canada’s environment policy could benefit from a Biden presidency: experts: Gerald Butts, vice-chairman at the political-risk consultancy
Eurasia Group and former principal secretary to Prime Minister Justin
Trudeau, said Biden’s climate policies are the most aggressive any
American presidential candidate has ever proposed.That includes eliminating fossil fuels from the U.S. power grid by
2050, and using the power of the federal procurement system to spur
growth in electric vehicles.Butts said Biden’s plan would not
only put pressure on the world, including Canada, to up its climate
game, it opens a “big opportunity to grow the Canadian clean energy and
clean-tech footprint in the United States.”Read More

B.C. could pay up to $15M in Indigenous foster care fraud settlement | CBC News: Anyone who was in the care of Kelowna-based social worker Robert Riley Saunders will receive between $25,000 and $250,000.

The province could pay out as much as $15 million in the scandal.  

B.C. could pay up to $15M in Indigenous foster care fraud settlement | CBC News: Anyone who was in the care of Kelowna-based social worker Robert Riley Saunders will receive between $25,000 and $250,000. The province could pay out as much as $15 million in the scandal.  Read More

Keep calm and borrow on: Chrystia Freeland and the new logic of deficits in a pandemic | CBC News: During her remarks on how the pandemic is shifting Liberal fiscal policy Wednesday, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland acknowledged that her words might sound scary to some Canadians — particularly those of a certain age.

“Now, for Canadians of a certain vintage — and I freely admit to being one of them — the idea of increasing government debt holds particular terrors,” Freeland said, pointing to the fiscal turmoil of the mid-1990s that defined the political debate on fiscal policy in Canada for nearly a quarter century.

“But it is a poor general who fights the last war,” she continued. “And the reality is that, today, the prevailing global economic environment is changed entirely.”

Keep calm and borrow on: Chrystia Freeland and the new logic of deficits in a pandemic | CBC News: During her remarks on how the pandemic is shifting Liberal fiscal policy Wednesday, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland acknowledged that her words might sound scary to some Canadians — particularly those of a certain age.“Now, for Canadians of a certain vintage — and I freely admit to being one of them — the idea of increasing government debt holds particular terrors,” Freeland said, pointing to the fiscal turmoil of the mid-1990s that defined the political debate on fiscal policy in Canada for nearly a quarter century.“But it is a poor general who fights the last war,” she continued. “And the reality is that, today, the prevailing global economic environment is changed entirely.”Read More