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Canada to follow U.S. lead at Copenhagen
Ottawa :: Canada | 4 days ago
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T he Canadian government says it will be following Barack Obama's lead at next week's Copenhagen climate summit – and propose no more, no less. In a speech to a business audience Friday, Environment Minister Jim Prentice said Canada would align its policy...
Tags: Jim Prentice, Canada, environment minister, minister jim, climate change, Ottawa, Environment, Carbon finance, Kyoto Protocol, Global warming, Environmental skepticism, Diplomatic conferences, Carbon dioxide, Action on climate change, Emissions trading, Jean Charest, IPCC Third Assessment Report, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Air pollution, Individual and political action on climate change, Scientific opinion on climate change, Environmental policy of the Harper government, Global warming controversy, Low-carbon economy, John Gerretsen
Climate protesters occupy riding office of Finance Minister Jim Flaherty
Whitby :: United Kingdom | 7 days ago
Credibility At least seven protesters have occupied Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's riding office in Whitby, Ont., to demand greater action on climate change. The group People for Climate Justice is demanding a binding climate treaty during negotiations to be held...
Tags: minister jim, Jim Flaherty, riding office, finance minister, United Kingdom, Whitby, Environment, Individual and political action on climate change, Diplomatic conferences, Carbon finance, Copenhagen, Whitby Ontario, Jim Prentice, Stephen Harper
Take the HST high road
Toronto :: Canada | 8 days ago
Credibility M ichael Ignatieff has many grounds on which to criticize Conservative economic policy. But reflexively fighting the proposed harmonized sales tax in Ontario and British Columbia would not be just bad economics; it would be, contrary to the knee-jerk...
Tags: Michael Ignatieff, HST, sales tax, British Columbia, Ontario, Canada, Toronto, Politics, Stephen Harper, Liberal Party of Canada, Calgary, Bloc Quￃﾩbￃﾩcois, Conservative Party of Canada, Jim Prentice, Harmonized Sales Tax, Universitￃﾩ Laval alumni, Taxation in Canada, Sales taxes, Goods and Services Tax, Canadians of German descent, 39th Canadian Parliament, John Logie Baird
Obama's climate vow boosts chances for Copenhagen deal
Copenhagen :: Denmark | 13 days ago
Credibility President Obama will attend the international climate negotiations in Copenhagen next month and is promising sizable reductions in U.S. carbon emissions, the White House announced Wednesday, giving new hope for a global agreement on reducing heat-trapping...
Tags: Copenhagen, China, climate change, Barack Obama, copenhagen climate, Wen Jiabao, climate summit, global warming, carbon dioxide, U.S, Denmark, Environment, Carbon finance, Kyoto Protocol, Diplomatic conferences, Politics, Action on climate change, Greenhouse gas, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Carbon intensity, Energy economics, IPCC Third Assessment Report, Politburo of the Communist Party of China, Michael E. Mann, Greenhouse gas emissions by the United States, Politics of global warming, IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, 21st century, Climate change in China, Jim Prentice, Carbon credit
Linking climate plans difficult, committee hears
Calgary :: Canada | 14 days ago
Credibility Environmental experts in the U.S. say Canadian and United States climate change legislation should be linked to be most effective, but cautioned that developing laws concurrently would be difficult. Federal environment minister Jim Prentice said last...
Tags: climate change, Edmonton, Canada, Calgary, Environment, Emissions trading, Carbon finance, Kyoto Protocol, Politics, No. 408 Squadron RCAF, Jim Prentice, Carbon credit, War Conflict, Air pollution, Global warming, Alberta Climate Change and Emissions Management Amendment Act, Stephen Harper, John Gerretsen, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Dalton McGuinty, Action on climate change
S.W. house under construction collapses
Calgary :: Canada | 14 days ago
Credibility Calgary police are looking for a self-proclaimed white supremacist and a teenager suspected of leaving explosive devices outside an apartment unit that later detonated in a nearby parking lot. Calgary city council rejected adding funding for new transit...
Tags: Calgary-Centre North, Jim Prentice, environment minister, minister jim, Canada, Calgary, Environment, Politics, Climate change, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Oil sands, Carbon finance, Petroleum geology, Global warming, Stephen Harper, Law Crime, Climate change in Australia, Action on climate change
Lucy Lawless has a cheque for the PM
Copenhagen :: Denmark | 20 days ago
Credibility Actress Lucy Lawless and climate scientist Jim Salinger are heading to Parliament with a cheque for Prime Minister John Key. The pair plan to give Mr Key nearly $5,000 and a boarding pass to help to get him to the climate change talks in Copenhagen next...
Tags: climate change, Copenhagen, Jim Prentice, environment minister, minister jim, John Key, Jim Salinger, prentice says, Canada, greenhouse gases, Denmark, Civil disobedience, Stop climate chaos, Lawless, Greenpeace, Politics, Contraltos, Lucy Lawless, Environmental organizations, Human Interest, Law Crime, Environment, Carbon finance, Climate change in New Zealand, Diplomatic conferences, Carbon dioxide, Kyoto Protocol, Global warming, Emissions trading, Environmental economics, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Donolo aims to ice Tories
Ottawa :: Canada | 20 days ago
Credibility He’s finally on the job as Michael Ignatieff’s chief of staff. And not surprisingly a very big staff meeting has been called for later this morning in the Opposition Leader’s Office...The biggest rumour (and there have been lots of rumours since the broom...
Tags: tories mp, water bottles, Canada, Ottawa, Stephen Harper, Political history of Canada, Peter MacKay, Jim Prentice, Tory, Canadians of Scottish descent, Georgian era, Jacobitism, Politics
Climate-change chatter
Edmonton :: Canada | 24 days ago
Credibility Personally, though I didn’t hear much that was new, I found the program very entertaining. Especially when Roger Gibbins — one of our country’s leading political scientists — explained why Canada was co-ordinating its position with the United States,...
Tags: Canada, Jim Prentice, Edmonton, Barack Obama, Michael Ignatieff, Russian nobility, Climate change in Australia, Climate change, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Mitigation of global warming, Global warming, Action on climate change, Carbon finance, Environment
New lawyer in Cambridge Bay shooting case
Nuuk :: Greenland | about 1 month ago
Credibility A polar bear conservation agreement between Greenland, Canada and Nunavut will be signed Friday. The man accused in a shooting that killed three men in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, has a new lawyer, after the one he had fought to obtain became too ill to...
Tags: Greenland, Continued Below Canada, polar bears, Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, Jim Prentice, minister jim, environment minister
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