Green-Scam

In a ruling released Thursday, a Federal Court of Canada judge not only struck down the federal Liberals’ ban on single-use plastics as poor environmental law, Justice Angela Furlanetto also said the ban was an improper intrusion into provincial constitutional jurisdiction.

When it comes to the carbon tax on home heating, Justin Trudeau continues to give common sense the cold shoulder.

At a time when the Prime Minister’s carbon tax policies are tearing Ottawa apart and driving a wedge between the once-unflappable Liberal-NDP alliance, one might expect a sensible leader to pump the breaks and work the situation out.

The only way Canada will achieve Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s target of reducing Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 will be through a major recession or recessions.

Federal environment commissioner Jerry DeMarco didn’t put things quite that bluntly on Tuesday when he gave the feds a failing grade on their efforts to reduce Canada’s emissions, but he came close.

The board chair of a federal green fund participated in the approval of more than $200,000 in grants to her own company, MPs have learned in committee.

Annette Verschuren, board chair of Sustainable Development Technologies Canada (SDTC), told the House of Commons ethics committee Nov. 8 that she had moved a motion for the board to approve COVID relief payments to STDC-affiliated companies.

You know, there was just a small chance that the Liberals could have gotten away with giving a timely political break to the Atlantic provinces by suspending the carbon tax on heating oil for home use. I’m sure I was personally well into my 30s as an Albertan before I learned that many homes out East are still heated in that picturesque 19th-century manner. “Wait, you burn liquid fuel? That sits in a big tank? And it has to be delivered in a truck?” I didn’t have a similarly mind-bending WTF experience until quite recently, when I heard how many Ontarian homeowners are (inexplicably) renting their water heaters from somebody.

Canadian Solar to build $800-million solar panel factory in southeastern Indiana

Ontario-based Canadian Solar Inc. will build an $800-million solar panel factory in southeastern Indiana that will employ about 1,200 workers once production is fully ramped up, the company said Monday.

Canadian Solar said it will build the new photovoltaic cell factory at the River Ridge Commerce Center in Jeffersonville, an Ohio River city located just north of Louisville, Kentucky.

The federal Conservatives are promising to unanimously approve fast-tracking of any government legislation that would give Canadians who use natural gas to heat their homes the same carbon tax break that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau extended late last week to those who heat their homes with oil.

After the worst wildfire season on record and baking heat waves this summer, most Canadians want the government to take urgent action against climate change — but fewer are willing to dig into their own pockets to help that fight, according to recent polling.

More than two-thirds (68 per cent) of respondents to a new Ipsos poll conducted exclusively for Global News agreed that Canada will continue to grapple with extreme weather events.