A revamp of global trade rules is essential to stopping economic coercion, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison was expected to say Wednesday, in ..|News Track
iPolitics By iPolitics. Published on Jun 9, 2021 11:40am The Lead Project Reconciliation, a Canadian Indigenous group, is seeking a full ownership stake in the Trans Mountain oil pipeline, according to the group’s new chairman. The group is among several Indigenous organizations that formed more than two years ago to seek a stake in Canada’s only oil pipeline system that delivers crude oil from Alberta to the Pacific Coast. Until now, Project Reconciliation had sought no more than a 51 per cent stake. Now it’s seeking 75 per cent with the option to eventually own 100 per cent of the pipeline. “We are hopeful that we can get our position across,” Robert Morin, the group’s chairman, told Bloomberg. The group has said it has funding lined up for the purchase, without revealing any financing source.
iPolitics By iPolitics. Published on Jun 9, 2021 11:40am The Lead Project Reconciliation, a Canadian Indigenous group, is seeking a full ownership stake in the Trans Mountain oil pipeline, according to the group’s new chairman. The group is among several Indigenous organizations that formed more than two years ago to seek a stake in Canada’s only oil-pipeline system that delivers crude oil from Alberta to the Pacific Coast. Until now, Project Reconciliation had sought no more than a 51 per cent stake. Now it’s seeking 75 per cent, with the option to eventually own 100 per cent of the pipeline. “We are hopeful that we can get our position across,” Robert Morin, the group’s chairman, told Bloomberg. The group has said it has funding lined up for the purchase, without revealing its financing source.
Brian Stoddart explores why Australia has decided to follow an “all or nothing” approach to China that now openly discusses the idea of war. When the Secretary of Australia’s Department of Home Affairs (who wants to be the Secretary for Defence) tells the nation it should prepare for war with China, the Westminster principles of government and governance are clearly gone, possibly for good.
Australian lobster fishermen shut out of mainland China are selling millions of dollars' worth of crayfish to the once-booming market via unofficial "grey channels".