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U.S. President Joe Biden is set to virtually host a global climate summit on Thursday and Friday, where he will announce significant changes to current climate policies. Biden is expected reveal his goal of cutting American greenhouse gas emissions in half by the end of the decade, according to the New York Times.
Biden’s target nearly doubles the pledge made by the Obama administration, which promised to cut emissions 26 to 28 per cent below 2005 levels by 2025. Biden administration officials noted that his announcement will not include detailed modelling regarding how the U.S. plans to satisfy this pledge.
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Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey has thanked medical staff from the province who plan to help Ontario during its pandemic crisis and tried to assure his citizens that the departure of staff would not have an impact at home.
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ST. JOHN S, N.L. After requests from Ottawa, Atlantic Canadian provinces are looking at how they might help Ontario as a deadly, record-breaking third wave threatens to overrun the province s health-care system. Officials from all four Atlantic provinces said Monday they ve been in contact with either Ontario Premier Doug Ford or with federal officials or both to see what they could do for Canada s most populous province. Ontario reported 4,447 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, while just 30 new cases were reported across the entire Atlantic region. Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey said his province will absolutely be sending front-line health care workers to pitch in, his wife among them.
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The Ontario government is scrambling to remake its COVID-19 response plan after reversing new lockdown measures in the face of unprecedented civil pushback and pleas from the province’s science advisers to adopt their recommendations as the health care system buckles under the impact of growing case counts.