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Canada’s largest oil companies welcomed new tax breaks for carbon capture and storage schemes contained in the federal budget, though clean-tech leaders are concerned Ottawa is focused on “moonshots” rather than immediate actions to reduce emissions.
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland introduced Canada’s first federal budget in two years on Monday, which contained promises of tax breaks for investments in carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) projects as well as $319 million in funding for research and development in CCUS systems.
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Trudeau Was a Global Climate Hero. Now Canada Risks Falling Behind.
Canada is the only G7 nation whose greenhouse gas emissions have increased since the Paris agreement. The main reason: its oil sands.
An iceberg off Cape Dorset, an Inuit community in Nunavut, Canada. There is growing evidence that Nunavut’s glaciers are shrinking, in part due to iceberg calving as a result of climate change.Credit.Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times
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OTTAWA Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada will arrive for President Biden’s climate summit on Thursday with an outsize reputation for being a warrior in the global fight against climate change.
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UNDRIP legislation turning into a distraction from real action on Indigenous self-determination By Heather Exner-Pirot. Published on Apr 19, 2021 6:51am The need for an action plan that provides clarity and protection for Indigenous rights only grows. Justice Minister David Lametti in Ottawa
in February 2019. (Toronto Star/Patrick Doyle)
One would have thought the kinks of UNDRIP legislation would have been worked out by now. Indeed, they have not. Opposition to C-15, which is now being studied in committee, is coming from all sides. Rather than forging ahead with this legislation, we need to step back and think about what we are trying to achieve, and how to best protect the rights and improve the lives of Indigenous peoples in Canada.