Opinion | Canada’s Perverse Climate Change Policy: Gas Up
Mr. Dembicki is a journalist in British Columbia. He has an article in the New York Times denouncing Jason Kenney and Andrew Scheer’s climate politics.
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Federal-versus-provincial powers take centre stage in Ontario carbon tax court battle | CBC Radio
Where do federal political powers end and public health concerns begin?
This is the question being argued in the Ontario Court of Appeals this week as the province’s government appeals the federally-imposed carbon tax.
“It’s
not really about whether carbon taxes are good or whether they
work; it’s whether the federal government has the power to impose this
onto provinces,” argues Aaron Wudrick, director of the Federal Taxpayers
Federation, who are intervening in support of Ontario’s Progressive
Conservative government.
Immigrant families more likely to own home than add to pension plan, StatsCan says | CBC News
The
data agency released an analysis of numbers from 1999 to the 2016
census, comparing immigrant families with those born in Canada and
looking at various aspects of their financial lives.
data agency released an analysis of numbers from 1999 to the 2016
census, comparing immigrant families with those born in Canada and
looking at various aspects of their financial lives.
The average wealth of established immigrant families — those whose
major income earner was aged 45 to 64 and landed in Canada at
least 20 years earlier — grew from $625,000 in 1999 to $1.06 million
in 2016, an increase of $435,000, or more than 69 per cent.
“I’m not in a mood today to be disappointed
about anything,” said Winnipeg South Centre MP Jim Carr. “I’m in a mood
to celebrate the co-operation of two governments, because we realize
that this is in the interest of our people.”
Canada joins new German-France ‘alliance’ that doesn’t include U.S.
The initiative is part of ongoing government efforts to shore up
international co-operation at a time of waning American leadership and
Trump’s outspoken disdain of institutions created after the Second World
War, including the G7, the World Trade Organization and the United
Nations.