“The government has just made it
harder for Canada to get on the right pathway to reach our target of
becoming net-neutral by 2050,” Julia Levin, climate and energy program
manager at Toronto-based Environmental Defence, said
in a release. “It is inconsistent to commit to a green recovery and
serious climate action while simultaneously failing to put in place a
mechanism to ensure that only projects that are consistent with those
goals are built.”
Police Crisis Teams In Short Supply As Mental Health Calls Multiply In Canada
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Police forces are experiencing an unprecedented surge in mental health-related calls, according to statistics HuffPost reviewed from eight services and all 13 RCMP divisions.
The RCMP is the country’s largest police force and it reported a substantial increase in mental health-related calls in every province and territory, including in Ontario and Quebec where it doesn’t do front-line contract policing, but has a federal policing mandate in the capital region of Ottawa and Gatineau, Que.
A patchwork of training, funding and partnerships with mental health agencies has resulted in some successes — such as in Hamilton, where its crisis intervention team assisted in close to half of mental health-related calls last year and is considered one of Canada’s best models for police crisis support.
For the most part, however, many communities are ill-equipped to help people in crisis without the use of force. Not all services have crisis intervention teams, and even where they do exist, the vast majority are not staffed 24 hours a day, and therefore cannot respond to all mental health-related calls determined to be non-violent.
Source: Police Crisis Teams In Short Supply As Mental Health Calls Multiply In Canada | HuffPost Canada
Major new pipelines and mines must show path to net zero to get approved
The final report of the strategic assessment of climate change says any
projects that must undergo a federal impact assessment will need to show
how they are trying to keep emissions as low as possible.
Canada Flunks Climate Test with ‘Policy Full of Loopholes’ for Assessing New Projects
Canada’s new impact assessment rules for power plants, pipelines, and other major infrastructure fall far short of the climate test environmental organizations have been calling for, and only require a path to net-zero emissions for projects that will still be in operation in 2050, under a new federal framework unveiled last week.
“The government has just made it harder for Canada to get on the right pathway to reach our target of becoming net-neutral by 2050,” Julia Levin, climate and energy program manager at Toronto-based Environmental Defence, said in a release. “It is inconsistent to commit to a green recovery and serious climate action while simultaneously failing to put in place a mechanism to ensure that only projects that are consistent with those goals are built.”
Four members of Payette’s communications team have departed during the pandemic period alone. A fifth person is leaving this week and another two have taken leaves of absence. It’s just the latest wave of staff to quietly transfer out of the small office in response to mistreatment during Payette’s mandate, multiple sources said.
“This has gone from being one of the most collegial and enjoyable work environments for many of the staff to being a house of horrors,” said one government source. “It’s bullying and harassment at its worst.