Canada could meet its 2030 emissions target without a carbon tax on consumers, some analysts say, as the Liberal government faces mounting political pressure to remove it.
Pumpjacks draw out oil and gas from a well heads as wildfire smoke hangs in the air near Calgary, Alta., on Sunday, May 12, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
The tax on consumers will deliver only 8-9 per cent, or 19 million to 22 million metric tons, of the emissions cuts Canada plans to achieve by 2030, according to the Canadian Climate Institute. There is risk that the industrial tax, which will account for 39 per cent of emissions cuts by 2030 according to the institute's estimates, will also become a political target, Beugin said.
Supervised injection sites are saving the lives of drug users everyday, but the same support is not being offered to people who inhale illicit drugs, the head of the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS says.Lebanese authorities on Thursday banned walkie-talkies and pagers from being taken on flights from Beirut airport, the National News Agency reported, after thousands of such devices exploded during a deadly attack on Hezbollah this week.
'Craziest thing I've ever seen': Elusive salamanders make surprising mass appearance in Edmonton area Police have identified the two men killed in an early Wednesday morning shooting at a park north of Toronto. York Regional Police say officers were called to Bayview Park, near Bayview and Lowndes avenues in Keswick, Ont., just before 7:30 a.m. for a report of shots fired.Toronto saw a record-breaking wet summer, but September has proven to be anything but, with less than five millimetres of rain recorded this month.
Ontario Provincial Police are issuing a warning to be on guard against fraudsters, after an 84-year-old eastern Ontario woman had money removed from her bank account in an alleged online fraud.Public services in Quebec are becoming dehumanized, warns Quebec Ombudsman Marc-André Dowd in his 2023-2024 annual report, which is filled with concrete examples.
Almost three weeks into the school year and some families are still on waitlists for before and after school care and it’s exposing some major gaps in the education system.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be making adjustments to his cabinet today, CTV News has confirmed. The small shuffle is the result of longtime cabinet minister Pablo Rodriguez quitting.
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