BC entrepreneur James Dean founded Oxygen8, a fast-growing provider of high-efficiency, zero-carbon building ventilation systems, just before the Covid pandemic hit. His next challenge? Navigating the US trade war, a slowing economy and tighter rules on foreign labour.| Canada's National Observer
Doug Ford’s policies consistently prioritize privatization over public investment, deregulation over accountability and fiscal restraint over social infrastructure.| Canada's National Observer
British Columbia's forestry industry is "under pressure from all sides," prompting the provincial government to bring in changes to expand the role of BC Timber Sales. including allowing some communities to manage their own forest resources.| Canada's National Observer
Airborne particles cause toxic clumps of proteins in the human brain that are hallmarks of Lewy body dementia, a new study indicates.| Canada's National Observer
Canada’s biggest renewable diesel plant just opened in Edmonton — but behind the glossy photos and political fanfare lies a messy truth. Imperial Oil is running the facility on fossil-fuel hydrogen, not the carbon captured version it promised, while Ottawa’s new $370-million subsidy risks undermining its own climate rules.| Canada's National Observer
CRTC begins hearing on Canadian content obligations for music streamers| Canada's National Observer
The federal broadcast regulator begins a hearing today to look at which Canadian content obligations should apply to music streamers like Spotify.| Canada's National Observer
Dozens of residents opposed to Harvest Med Waste Disposal’s site in Remlap, Alabama, packed the Blount County courthouse to voice their concerns. Online, a paid campaign supporting the facility has been active, though its backers have remained anonymous.| Canada's National Observer
Ford says the tariff protects 157,000 jobs and the $46 billion the Ontario and federal governments have invested in developing Canada's electric vehicle and battery supply chain since 2020.| Canada's National Observer
This month, Oregon announced that homeowners in high-risk wildfire areas of the state are required to reduce vegetation on their properties and adhere to new building codes. Meanwhile, Canada, which has experienced an increase in devastating fires in recent years, relies on patchwork, mostly voluntary, measures to reduce fire risk. Some think it’s time for the rules to change.| Canada's National Observer
As cities expand into forests already primed to burn, experts say Canada needs stronger maps, building codes and planning rules to keep people safe.| Canada's National Observer
The latest news on energy, business, politics and our changing climate.| Canada's National Observer
Peter German, a lawyer and a former deputy commissioner of the RCMP, said in this case, the RCMP is utilizing an investigative unit that is experienced with investigating allegations of a sensitive political nature, such as corruption.| Canada's National Observer
Chancellor Sebastian Kurz may have traded his far-right governing partners for the progressive Greens, but his anti-Muslim views haven’t changed.| Canada's National Observer
Recent blockbuster successes in film and pop music provide an opportunity to reconsider the P-word, patriarchy, and its ills.| Canada's National Observer
Flow battery advocates say their water-based technology needs a fraction of the metals used in lithium batteries and can store energy longer and without fire risk. But high costs could limit its role in renewable energy storage.| Canada's National Observer
The auditor general will investigate the Ontario Place redevelopment and the planned move of the Ontario Science Centre to a new waterfront site. Acting auditor Nick Stavropoulos will oversee both audits.| Canada's National Observer
Province prioritizes slate of major projects to help declaw threatened U.S' export tariffs but only one — Teck’s Highland Valley copper mine — will produce critical minerals, materials key to solar panels, wind turbines, and EV batteries.| Canada's National Observer
New rules to transition Canada's power grids to be clean by 2035 have been significantly watered down, allowing fossil fuels to stay on the grid for decades to come thanks to freshly introduced loopholes — a trade off for reliability feds say.| Canada's National Observer
Logging is a carbon polluter on the scale of the high-emitting agriculture and building sectors.| Canada's National Observer
On sheer volume, it would appear there is a unified media consensus opposing electric vehicles.| Canada's National Observer
