A Lytton Fire Class-Action Suit Against Railways Is Going Ahead

Here’s a timeline of Guilbeault’s decision to resign from Carney cabinet

Party remains united after Guilbeault’s exit from cabinet, Liberal MPs say

#trade #canada #alberta #calgary #climate #pipeline #environmentalprotection #government #canadianpolitics #energy

Breaking down the Carney-Smith pipeline

Patricia D'Cunha / citynews - Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith put pen to paper this past week, signing an Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in hopes of strengthening Canada’s economy and lessen our dependence on the U.S. Plans for an independently-funded …

Debate and Commentary: Diverse opinions fuel heated pipeline discussions. (2)
Environmental/Indigenous Concerns: Local voices contest pipeline risks. (5)
Industry and Economic Benefits: Energy sector eyes big wins. (4)
Political Maneuvering: High-stakes power plays in pipeline deal. (7)

Smith, Carney sign memorandum of understanding on West Coast pipeline

Matthew Black / edmontonjournal - "There is much hard work ahead of us, but today is a new starting point for nation building as we increase our energy production for the benefit of millions and forge a new relationship between Alberta and the federal government"

#trade #politics #BC #alberta #ottawa #climate #pipeline #coastalmanagement #government #energy

Cabinet Resignations (6)
Economic Risks & Public Opinion (4)
MOU Announcements (17)
Regional & Indigenous Tensions (9)

Cabinet Resignations

Former environment minister, activist Steven Guilbeault resigning from cabinet

'A serious mistake': Steven Guilbeault quits Carney’s cabinet over Alberta pipeline deal

3 months / montrealgazette / Harry North

Hours after Carney’s pipeline deal unveiled, Steven Guilbeault resigns

3 months / nationalobserver / John Woodside

BREAKING: Guilbeault stepping down from cabinet after Ottawa and Alberta sign new pipeline deal

3 months / nationalpost / Catherine Lévesque

Guilbeault resigns from cabinet after Carney signs Alberta pipeline deal

3 months / globalnews / Sean Boynton

BREAKING: Steven Guilbeault resigns from cabinet because of pipeline deal

Poll shows majority of British Columbians support new pipeline

Economic Risks & Public Opinion

3 months / westernstandard / Jarryd Jäger

Most Canadians back Alberta-BC pipeline, but BC tanker fears threaten approval

3 months / westernstandard / Western Standard News Services

'Tremendously risky': Alberta's pipeline pact with Ottawa no guarantee a company will build it, analysts say

3 months / financialpost / Meghan Potkins

Ottawa risks billions in investments for a pipeline to nowhere

3 months / theglobeandmail / Thomas Gunton

MOU Announcements

EDITORIAL: A new oil pipeline is nation-building

3 months / torontosun / Postmedia News

Danielle Smith doesn’t need a pipeline to Prince Rupert – she just needs Mark Carney to promise she can have one

3 months / rabble / Nick Seebruch

Carney and Smith sign wide-ranging deal committing to new pipeline and carbon capture

3 months / thelogic / Laura Osman

Politics Insider: Ottawa and Alberta sign MOU that includes a new pipeline and a higher industrial carbon price

3 months / theglobeandmail / Ian Bailey

WATCH: Alberta and Canada agree on new vision for oil pipelines

3 months / torontosun / Postmedia News

B.C. premier to speak live following pipeline MOU signed by Ottawa, Alberta

3 months / globalnews / Amy Judd

Read the full text of the MOU that Canada and Alberta just signed to pave way for a pipeline

3 months / nationalpost / National Post Staff

Ottawa and Alberta have struck a pipeline deal. What else does it include?

3 months / globalnews / Uday Rana

Danielle Smith, Mark Carney sign MOU to further pipeline investment

BREAKING: Alberta gets its way in deal with Ottawa

3 months / nationalobserver / John Woodside, Natasha Bulowski

HANNAFORD: Ottawa finally backs Alberta oil — but at what cost?

3 months / westernstandard / Nigel Hannaford

Smith, Carney sign memorandum of understanding on West Coast pipeline

3 months / edmontonjournal / Matthew Black

BREAKING: Alberta and Ottawa strike sweeping deal to boost oil exports, scrap federal caps and push oil to Asia

3 months / westernstandard / Western Standard News Services

Carney, Smith sign sweeping energy deal, pledge new pipeline to West Coast

3 months / theglobeandmail / Stephanie Levitz, Emma Graney

BREAKING: Carney to consider ‘adjustment’ to oil tanker ban for new Alberta pipeline

3 months / nationalpost / Stephanie Taylor

OLDCORN: BC’s pipeline hypocrisy — Eby gets a taste of how Albertans feel

3 months / westernstandard / Christopher Oldcorn

Carney expected to unveil pipeline deal with Alberta

Coastal First Nations in B.C. say they’re prepared to challenge pipeline projects in court

Regional & Indigenous Tensions

3 months / theglobeandmail / Emily Haws, Justine Hunter, Andrea Woo

B.C. Premier Eby criticizes Alberta's proposed pipeline as First Nations say they won't consent

3 months / theglobeandmail

Braid: Smith scores a major victory as Ottawa retreats from a decade of meddling

3 months / calgaryherald / Don Braid, Calgary Herald

BREAKING: Eby 'anxious' about impact of pipeline MOU, says BC should have had seat at the table

3 months / westernstandard / Jarryd Jäger

John Ivison: Carney’s focus on Alberta’s prosperity will help calm separatist movement

3 months / nationalpost / John Ivison

Despite rare agreement between Alberta, Ottawa on pipeline pact, familiar battle lines are drawn

3 months / calgaryherald / Steven Wilhelm

Advocates say Alberta independence sentiment remains strong despite Carney-Smith energy agreement

3 months / westernstandard / David Wiechnik

'This is a battle we don't intend to lose' — Blanchet throws his hat in with Eby against pipeline

Ford backs new pipelines, sidesteps B.C. premier’s concerns as Carney cuts deal with Alberta

#ontario #budget #infrastructure #climate #government #canadianpolitics #energy

Ontario officially greenlights $26.8B Pickering nuclear power station refurbishment

Isaac Callan / globalnews - Energy Minister Stephen Lecce announced on Wednesday that the province had approved a plan from Ontario Power Generation to refurbish the plant's CANDU reactors.

Ontario to refurbish 4 reactors at Pickering Nuclear Generating Station

3 months / torontosun / Jane Stevenson

Ontario approves $26.8-billion Pickering nuclear plant refurbishment

3 months / theglobeandmail / Matthew McClearn

Ontario officially greenlights $26.8B Pickering nuclear power station refurbishment

3 months / globalnews / Isaac Callan

Ontario approves $26.8b Pickering nuclear overhaul set to begin in 2027

Ontario forges ahead with $26.8B nuclear refurbishment in Pickering

3 months / citynews / Lucas Casaletto

Braid: With tanker ban on the table, it's B.C. Premier Eby's turn to gripe about Ottawa

Don Braid, Calgary Herald / calgaryherald - Eby sounds almost like an Alberta premier during the Trudeau regime, when Ottawa systematically piled up laws that stifled the province’s economy

#economicpolicy #BC #climate #firstnations #pipeline #environmentalprotection #coastalmanagement #government #canadianpolitics #energy

Bell: Poilievre slams Smith-Carney pipeline deal as a 'public relations stunt'

3 months / calgaryherald / Rick Bell

Braid: With tanker ban on the table, it's B.C. Premier Eby's turn to gripe about Ottawa

3 months / calgaryherald / Don Braid, Calgary Herald

BC Liberal MPs face pressure from voters over pipeline, tanker ban

3 months / nationalobserver / Natasha Bulowski

Fact check: Elizabeth May’s tanker ban claims don’t add up

3 months / thehub / Falice Chin

B.C. and Alberta premiers continue public duel over pipeline

Amy Judd / globalnews - The Alberta and federal governments are said to be close to signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to move forward with the project.

#economicpolicy #BC #alberta #calgary #climate #pipeline #environmentalprotection #government #canadianpolitics #energy

Bell: Go time! Danielle Smith and Mark Carney agree to a pipeline deal

3 months / calgaryherald / Rick Bell

A delicate dance of 3 frenemies: How political timing influenced the confusing pipeline MOU

3 months / thehub / Falice Chin

Pipeline mania is distracting from what the talks between Ottawa and Alberta could actually achieve

3 months / theglobeandmail / Adam Radwanski

B.C. and Alberta premiers continue public duel over pipeline

3 months / globalnews / Amy Judd

Alberta’s Danielle Smith pushes back on B.C.’s opposition to proposed pipeline

3 months / theglobeandmail / Emma Graney

Eby says Alberta, Saskatchewan ‘secret’ pipeline talks jeopardize economic development

Justine Hunter, Emma Graney / theglobeandmail - Saskatchewan Premier reveals involvement in Alberta-Ottawa negotiations on potential northern B.C. pipeline

#economicpolicy #BC #alberta #saskatchewan #climate #pipeline #environmentalprotection #government #canadianpolitics #energy

Fast track to where? Carney’s major projects list stirs up emotions, and not much else

3 months / thenarwhal / Drew Anderson

ALBERS: Canada is risking its own collapse by sabotaging the West

3 months / westernstandard / Western Standard Guest Columnist

John Ivison: Ottawa wakes up to a B.C. dispute ‘poisoning’ billions in export opportunities

3 months / nationalpost / John Ivison

The Oil Tanker Ban That Dims Alberta’s Pipeline Hopes

3 months / thetyee / Amanda Follett Hosgood

Eby says Alberta, Saskatchewan ‘secret’ pipeline talks jeopardize economic development

3 months / theglobeandmail / Justine Hunter, Emma Graney

BC's Opposition Conservatives have been talking with Alberta about pipeline: Rustad

3 months / nationalobserver / Wolfgang Depner

Pipeline deal from Alberta to B.C. North Coast reportedly in the works, speculation remains

3 months / globalnews / Amy Judd

Country music singer starts Corb Lund starts petition to ban coal mining on the Rockies’ Eastern Slopes

David J. Climenhaga / rabble - The iconic country music performer showed up in Edmonton yesterday with paperwork for a referendum petition to halt coal mining in the Rockies.The post Country music singer starts Corb Lund starts petition to ban coal mining on the Rockies’ Eastern Slopes…

#politics #canada #publicprotests #alberta #entertainment #mining #localelections #climate #environmentalprotection #energy

Country music star plans petition calling for ban on Alberta coal mining

3 months / globalnews / Ken MacGillivray

Country music singer starts Corb Lund starts petition to ban coal mining on the Rockies’ Eastern Slopes

3 months / rabble / David J. Climenhaga

Coal mining debate heats up in Alberta as Corb Lund files citizen initiative

3 months / westernstandard / David Wiechnik

Country artist Corb Lund starts citizen initiative petition to ban coal mining along eastern slopes

3 months / calgaryherald / Stephen Tipper

Fire forces evacuation at COP30 climate summit in Brazil

Jeremy Borg / westernstandard - A fire at the COP30 climate summit forced the evacuation of delegates, staff, and media on Thursday in the host city of Belem.

#diplomacy #media #internationalrelations #publicsafety #weather #emergencyresponse #climate #environmentalprotection #agriculture

Letter from COP 30 in Belem, Brazil

3 months / thetyee / David Tindall

Fire forces evacuation at COP30 climate summit in Brazil

COP30: Fire prompts evacuation at Brazil building used for UN climate talks

Fire prompts evacuations at one of the buildings for COP30 talks in Brazil

3 months / nationalobserver / Associated Press

Vianode to spent $3.2B on graphite plant for EVs in southwestern Ontario

Globalnews Digital / globalnews - Vianode CEO Burkhard Straube says it will construct the plant in St. Thomas, Ont., and will initially create 300 jobs and ramp up to 1,000 jobs once the plant is operating fully.

#economicpolicy #technology #ontario #mining #infrastructure #climate #government #energy #business #jobs

Vianode to spent $3.2B on graphite plant for EVs in southwestern Ontario

Norway’s Vianode to build $3.2-billion graphite plant for EVs in Ontario

3 months / theglobeandmail / Liam Casey

Ontario commits $670M loan for $3.2B EV graphite plant

#economicpolicy #budget #deficit #fiscalpolicy #minoritygovernment #climate #government #houseofcommons #canadianpolitics

Politics Insider: Carney’s government survives narrow confidence vote

Ian Bailey / theglobeandmail - Federal budget passes after late climate pledge wins over Green Party’s Elizabeth May and other MPs abstain

Federal budget scramble leaves Canadian negotiators rudderless at UN climate summit

3 months / nationalobserver / Natasha Bulowski, John Woodside

A bad budget for climate and nature

3 months / winnipegfreepress / Erna Buffie

Government tables budget bill exceeding 600 pages after surviving confidence vote

3 months / theglobeandmail / Bill Curry

Politics Insider: Carney’s government survives narrow confidence vote

3 months / theglobeandmail / Ian Bailey

WATCH: Finance minister slams opposition for not supporting budget

Liberals escape another confidence vote, as opposition complains their methods are ‘not sustainable’

3 months / nationalpost / Catherine Lévesque

John Robson: Opposition MPs conspire to pass Carney’s disastrous budget

3 months / nationalpost / John Robson

Alberta MP misses razor-thin budget vote while recovering from surgery

Tasha Kheiriddin: Poilievre lets Carney’s irresponsible budget slide through

3 months / nationalpost / Tasha Kheiriddin

Prime Minister Mark Carney is 'very pleased' budget vote passed

3 months / theglobeandmail

‘Whiplash’ and ‘scar tissue’: conservation authorities grapple with Ontario’s most dramatic overhaul yet

Fatima Syed / thenarwhal - Nearly 80 years after their creation, the Doug Ford government is reducing the unique environmental agencies from 36 to 7, in a move staff say may ‘slow approvals, create confusion’ over development and flood protections

#politics #ontario #publicsafety #localelections #infrastructure #climate #environmentalprotection #government

‘Whiplash’ and ‘scar tissue’: conservation authorities grapple with Ontario’s most dramatic overhaul yet

3 months / thenarwhal / Fatima Syed

Ontario's conservation authorities are consolidating. Here's what that will mean for Ottawa

3 months / ottawacitizen / Joanne Laucius

Carney’s major projects list expands but still no pipeline

Jeremy Borg / westernstandard - Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to announce several new mining and energy projects this week, but none include a new pipeline, despite growing calls from industry for expanded energy transport capacity.

#markcarney #canada #alberta #mining #infrastructure #climate #pipeline #government #canadianpolitics #energy

Infrastructure Skepticism (3)
International Energy Ambitions (1)
Pipeline Dilemma (6)
Political Priorities (3)

Infrastructure Skepticism

LILLEY: Mark Carney’s highly-touted project list is hardly ambitious

3 months / torontosun / Brian Lilley

Carney expected to add B.C. transmission line, Quebec graphite mine to major projects list Thursday: source

3 months / theglobeandmail / Justine Hunter

As Carney pushes major projects, he must heed a cautionary tale from Canada’s past

3 months / theglobeandmail / John Sandlos, Arn Keeling

International Energy Ambitions

Japan eager for more energy, critical minerals from Canada

3 months / theglobeandmail / Steven Chase

Pipeline Dilemma

Alberta remains focused on Ottawa deal as pipeline proves elusive

3 months / edmontonjournal / Matthew Black

Mark Carney’s ‘major projects’ plan major disappointment: Poilievre

'GET OUT OF THE WAY': Poilievre slams Carney over pipeline delays, investment losses

3 months / westernstandard / David Wiechnik

Carney keeps teasing a new pipeline, but will he follow through?

3 months / thehub / Falice Chin

Carney’s major projects list expands but still no pipeline

Why Carney's pivot to Keystone XL is brilliant (even if just a fantasy)

3 months / nationalobserver / Ross Belot

Political Priorities

Premiers say infrastructure, U.S. trade talks top Carney meeting priorities

More flights for PM Mark Carney as he’ll head to UAE, South Africa

Liberal MP slams Carney budget amid reported 'Conservative turmoil'