The specific details of the program weren’t shared with CBC, but two government sources say the government’s plan is modelled on a similar program in Singapore. #cdnpoli
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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.
Marshall: Plugging Methane Leaks Should Be a ‘No-Brainer’ for Canadian Fossils – The Energy Mix
“For 25 years, oil and gas companies,
and their lobby arms such as the Canadian Association of Petroleum
Producers (CAPP), have successfully worked to forestall Canadian action
on climate change. Over that time, carbon emissions from the petroleum
sector have continued to grow, making it the greatest and fastest
growing source of climate pollution in the country,” Marshall writes.
Singh’s Quebec strategy has the NDP fishing in a small pool | CBC News
He unveiled the opening act of his plan on Monday, when he named Alexandre Boulerice as the party’s deputy leader and charged him with leading the NDP’s election campaign in the province. It was the first in what Singh says will be a series of announcements meant to woo Quebecers back into the orange fold.
Singh certainly has an uphill climb ahead of him.
After winning 59 seats in Quebec in the 2011 federal election, the NDP dropped to just 16 seats and 25 per cent of the province’s vote in 2015. These days, the NDP would happily take those 2015 numbers again. #cdnpoli