In May, National Observer invited the leaders of all four major provincial political parties to share their thoughts on the Ontario election by submitting opinion pieces. The day before the election, Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford and Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner discuss their visions for change.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau linked Indigenous reconciliation and the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline Tuesday as he met with a group in British Columbia that monitors construction of the project, including a chief who told Vice News that he denied the extent to which humans were causing climate change.
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada says the second mate on the Nathan E. Stewart was by himself on the tug's bridge and had fallen asleep when the tug-barge ran aground on Oct. 31, 2016, resulting in the release of about 110,000 litres of diesel fuel in Heiltsuk First Nation territorial waters near Bella Bella, B.C.
Crews using an emergency response trailer and vacuum trucks are working to clean up a crude oil spill at a Kinder Morgan station north of Kamloops, B.C.
CanLit star Shaena Lambert tied herself to the gates of Kinder Morgan’s Burnaby pipeline terminal in an act of civil disobedience on Saturday. Lambert was arrested by the RCMP along with Cat Roivas, a Chippewayan woman who had already been arrested twice for blocking access to the Texas-based company’s tank farm.
National Observer was nominated in two categories of this year's Digital Publishing Awards, for "general excellence" and "best news coverage," both in the small news category.
"Not me. No connection," Richmond Hill resident Alex Minassian angrily posted on Facebook, as media started to bombard him with messages after mistaking him for Alek Minassian — the alleged suspect who killed 9 in Toronto by ramming a van into pedestrians on Yonge Street. "NBC, ABC, CBC, stop harassing my friends and family."
