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Tuesday’s proposed amendments are designed to insulate Ottawa from potential court challenges over its authority to regulate major projects in provincial jurisdiction, but environmentalists fear the feds are retreating from their responsibility to fight climate change.

For the first time in the process, negotiators discussed the text of what is supposed to become a global treaty. Delegates and observers at the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution called it a welcome sign that talk shifted from ideas to treaty language at this fourth of five scheduled meetings.

Confused shoppers milled around the front of a London Drugs store in downtown Vancouver on Monday, some wondering aloud why they couldn't access the store to get prescriptions or buy hair dye.