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Stephen Harper accelerates foreign efforts to promote energy and trade
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Stephen Harper and senior members of his cabinet are accelerating efforts to promote free trade and Canada’s energy exports through an international charm offensive, arguing...
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Website urges Stephen Harper to get his facts straight on oilsands
OTTAWA — Environmental groups say that Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government needs to get its facts straight about the oil industry. A coalition of groups from Canada, the United States and Europe...
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Stephen Harper’s government withholds details of $16-million PR campaign for...
OTTAWA — The Harper government is declining to explain how and where it is spending millions of taxpayer dollars on advertising to promote oil, gas and pipeline companies as well as other Canadian...
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Toronto artist Franke James says Harper government monitored her climate...
OTTAWA – More than two dozen senior officials and diplomats in Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative government monitored information about a Toronto artist over her criticism of the oil and gas...
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Waterloo climate claims raise eyebrows
A University of Waterloo physicist made the bold claim Thursday that global warming is not caused by carbon dioxide but by “CFCs conspiring with cosmic rays.” In a report that has raised plenty of...
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New York prepares for effects of climate change
The projections paint an unsettling picture of New York’s future: A city where in a few decades, 800,000 people could be living in a flood zone that would cover a quarter of the land, and as many...
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Federal government planned ‘strong’ PR campaign to promote oil industry
OTTAWA — Days before announcing Canada would withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, the federal government drafted plans for a “strong and coordinated” public relations campaign and major...
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Canadian spy agency, top security officials invited to ‘secret’ meeting on...
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s national security adviser Stephen Rigby turned down a request to join a secret meeting attended by other senior government officials invited last summer to plan...
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Climate change play takes jabs at human nature and politics
OTTAWA- A new play in the nation’s capital is taking some playful jabs at human nature in the face of climate change. Emissions: A Climate Comedy opened with a pair of shows last weekend at the Ottawa...
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Unprecedented ocean acidification from greenhouse gases putting Canadian...
OTTAWA – Canada’s Atlantic waters may be “particularly vulnerable” to increased carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere that are causing “unprecedented” acidification of the planet’s oceans, says a...
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Unfinished oil and gas pollution rules greet Stephen Harper’s new environment...
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Stephen Harper latest environment minister, Leona Aglukkaq, could bring some front-line views of the impacts of global warming on her home in Canada’s North to the federal...
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Major threats to biodiversity loom on Canadian economy: federal briefings
OTTAWA — Environment Canada is developing a new strategy, in the midst of multimillion-dollar cuts, to expand its capacity to evaluate the economic value of natural ecosystems, parks and wildlife,...
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Premiers hope to challenge federal infrastructure and job training programs...
OTTAWA — The Alberta government is hoping to kickstart a new discussion among federal and provincial governments about investments in more resilient infrastructure in the wake of devastating floods...
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Alberta, B.C. launch plan to expand oil, gas exports
NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, Ont. – The premiers of British Columbia and Alberta have launched a joint plan to expand exports of oil, gas and other resources, laying the groundwork for new pipeline projects to...
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Harper government says environmental groups doing “significant” policy research
OTTAWA-Members of PrIme Minister Stephen Harper’s government and conservative talk show hosts have publicly described them as radical foreign-funded groups trying to wreck the Canadian economy. But...
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Disappearing species and enforcement warnings to oil company flagged in...
OTTAWA — Disappearing caribou, whooping cranes with “oily underbellies” and more than a dozen warning letters about alleged environmental infractions to a major Canadian energy company are among the...
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Canada supports global carbon pricing: government records
OTTAWA — Canada supports putting a price on carbon emissions as part of a global climate change strategy, say newly released records prepared at the highest levels of the federal government. Documents...
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Harper government pays to transfer cancelled climate program to Japan
OTTAWA — Even as it was cancelling a popular federal incentive program that helped Canadian households retrofit their homes and save on energy costs, the Harper government says on its climate change...
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Has Harper government delayed climate change progress report?
OTTAWA-The federal government isn’t answering questions about what’s holding up the release of an annual report on Canada’s progress in fighting climate change – an analysis normally released in...
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Canada joins international partners to battle climate pollutants
Canada’s new Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq will join top government officials in Norway Tuesday to discuss how nations can cut emissions of soot, methane and other “short-lived climate...
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