Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault now finds himself, alongside a select handful of other countries, in a pivotal role brokering the fierce debates around phasing out fossil fuels that have defined COP28.
Conservative MPs Jeremy Patzer, Ted Falk and Larry Brock sit before the Standing Committee on Natural Resources begins its meeting on Dec. 6, 2023. Photo by Natasha Bulowski
The much awaited final episode in season two of Canada’s National Observer’s award-winning podcast The Salmon People dropped today. Throughout season two, investigative reporter Sandra Bartlett brings you the very best of what boots-on-the-ground Canadian journalism has to offer, taking listeners on an epic journey to the rugged shores of the West Coast, and into the next chapter of the battle to save wild Pacific salmon from extinction.In the final episode, Sandra examines the impact industrial fish farms closures will have on Indigenous communities and explores what other options are available to these First Nations.
David Eby is a lot of things: the premier of British Columbia, the MLA for Point Grey, and Canada's last competent defender of carbon pricing. Is he also the federal NDP's leader-in-waiting and the person who can finish the work Jack Layton started?