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About Elizabeth McSheffrey

Elizabeth McSheffrey is a multimedia journalist with Global News. You can find her bylines all over the world, from the Canadian Prairies to the coast of East Africa. While working as a reporter at National Observer, she was nominated for a series of national and international awards, including an outstanding investigative journalism award from the Canadian Association of Journalists and an AITO Young Travel Writer of the Year Award. In 2016, she co-won a Best News Coverage prize at the Canadian Online Publishing Awards and a Clements Award for Media. Subsequently, she took home a silver prize at the COPAs for investigative work on the Husky Energy oil spill, and was a lead author on one of the largest national journalism collaborations in Canadian history, examining the regulatory infractions and human impacts of the oil and gas industry.

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Matthew Linnitt, The Price of Oil, CNRL, sour gas, hydrogen sulfide, helicopter pilot

Coverups and lies ‘a systemic cancer’ in the world of oilpatch health and safety breaches: whistleblowers

The words may not have been explicit, but oilpatch contractor Matthew Linnitt says he read between the lines: lie on official documents about an incident that could have killed him, or someone would be fired.
The Price of Oil
Energy, Politics | August 20th 2019
Elizabeth Audette-Bourdeau, Welbi, Startup Canada, Evolocity

Here’s what happens when you invest in businesses led by women

Women now represent 47 per cent of business owners in Canada, but according to SheEO, a Toronto-based organization that supports women entrepreneurs, only four per cent of venture capital goes to Canadian companies led by women.
News | July 19th 2018
Greg Rickford, Energy and Mines, Northern Development, Ontario, Kenora, Doug Ford

Clean power advocates disappointed, but defiant in the face of Ford’s sweeping cuts

Renewable energy builders and buyers won't sit idly while a senior member of the Ontario government calls their projects "unnecessary and wasteful."
News, Energy, Politics | July 17th 2018
Greg Rickford, Energy and Mines, Northern Development, Ontario, Kenora, Doug Ford

Ontario cancelling 758 'unnecessary and wasteful' renewable energy contracts

The sweeping cuts to "unnecessary and wasteful energy projects" are part of the Ontario government's plan to cut hydro rates by 12 per cent, said Minister of Energy, Northern Development and Mines Greg Rickford on Friday afternoon.
News, Energy, Politics | July 13th 2018
Pyrowave, cleantech, clean technology, microwave, plastic waste, recycling

EDC partners with plastic-zapping microwave company from Montreal

Export Development Canada's newest partner is a Quebec-born company that uses microwaves to zap plastic into a reusable liquid compound.
News, Energy | July 6th 2018
dairy, cows, factory farming, quebec, dairy farm, agriculture

New food safety rules condemn millions of Canadian animals to suffer, say advocates

Animal welfare advocates aren't too pleased with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency's new proposal for the regulation of animal handling and slaughter. It's still legal, for example, not to feed or hydrate a crated animal for 23 hours after it has been transported.
State Of The Animal
News | June 21st 2018

Environment Canada urged to release its probe of fossil fuel subsidies

Earlier this week, Environment and Climate Change Canada said it would decide later whether its fossil fuel subsidies review would be published in full. After a line of questioning from National Observer however, it appears to have changed its tune.
News, Politics | June 19th 2018
Experimental Lakes Area, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Kenora, International Institute for Sustainable Development

Scientists are planning an oily bitumen spill in this Ontario lake

Researchers in northwestern Ontario are counting down the days until they can hop in a boat with a bucket of diluted bitumen, and pour it into a freshwater lake.
News | May 22nd 2018
Maple Lodge Farms, hatchery, Mercy for Animals, poultry, factory farming

Ontario SPCA to review graphic hidden-camera footage

The Ontario SPCA is reviewing graphic new footage that shows staff at a hatchery, reportedly in southern Ontario, injuring and killing baby chickens by hand. The footage was leaked by Mercy For Animals earlier this month.
State Of The Animal
News | May 14th 2018
Green Party of Canada Leader Elizabeth May

Investigation clears Elizabeth May of workplace bullying claims

A third-party investigation has concluded that allegations of bullying against federal Green Party leader Elizabeth May do not meet the legal standard for workplace harassment. The results were released on Thursday and the investigation has now been closed.
News, Politics | May 10th 2018
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