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March 29th 2025

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Vancouver’s future net-zero targets hinge on affordable housing Buildings in Vancouver account for 25 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions. Carlo Cantisani News, Climate Solutions Reporting \| March 31st 2025

The West Coast's tidal swamps are supercharged carbon sinks These pockets of woody wetlands can store about nine million tonnes of organic carbon per hectare — the equivalent amount of carbon burned by two million gas cars every year. Rochelle Baker News, Climate Solutions Reporting, Island Insider \| March 31st 2025

The government should dismantle Tesla in Canada Canada won't be subsidizing Teslas for the foreseeable future. That should just be the first step. Jimmy Thomson Opinion \| March 29th 2025

Poilievre’s 1950s fantasy draws cheers in Surrey Poilievre promises his supporters an instant fix, a walk back in time all the way to the fifties, a decade of prosperity when middle-class home ownership was a given, drugs were not killing so many and we could burn hydrocarbons with impunity, blissfully ignorant of the consequences. Adrienne Tanner Opinion \| March 28th 2025

Defund the CBC – at what cost? When you plan to gut a 90-year-old Canadian cultural institution like the CBC, it might be worth asking, “at what cost?” Dan Oldfield Opinion \| March 31st 2025

B.C. Premier David Eby walks back emergency powers tariff bill after power grab complaints Eby says the legislation known as Bill 7 needs appropriate "safeguards" after a wave of criticism about potential overreach. Darryl Greer News \| March 28th 2025

Trump administration favours fossil fuels over clean energy with grant cancellations President Donald Trump declared an energy emergency early in his term and is working to speed up fossil fuel development, which he sums up as “drill, baby, drill.” Jennifer Mcdermott News \| March 28th 2025

Prime Minister Mark Carney said U.S. President Donald Trump was respectful during talk But Carney also told U.S. President Donald Trump in a phone call this morning that Canada will be implementing new retaliatory tariffs to protect the Canadian economy and workers next week after Trump imposes his promised round of reciprocal tariffs on April 2. Dylan Robertson News \| March 28th 2025

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