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Mark Carney’s pipeline plan shelves emissions targets

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By Anushka Yadav, The Pointer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

In 2021, a year before she would become Premier, Danielle Smith described on a podcast for the Alberta Enterprise Group, which lobbies on behalf of the oil industry, how she came to work for the organization. 

She had been recruited by a large organization that lobbies for the cattle production industry and said she liked their approach because “they recruited people from the energy sector; in fact, our chair was an oilman.” 

At the time, Smith was aggressively lobbying the provincial government on behalf of the Alberta Enterprise Group, trying to convince politicians that part of a proposed $20 billion taxpayer-funded incentive program should see money handed over to oil companies which would encourage them to clean up old abandoned wells, which they had failed to look after.

In 2023, a year after becoming Premier, Smith was widely accused of being in a conflict when, after working as a lobbyist for the oil sector and aggressively trying to convince Alberta politicians it was a good deal for the province, she pushed the giveaway to the industry through.    

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Mark Carney versus Pierre Poilievre on climate change policy (and other stuff)

By Keith Stewart, originally published on Greenpeace

When Mark Carney became our Prime Minister, I asked myself: Can a former Goldman Sachs executive and central banker save Canada and the climate? 

Then I realized: That’s the wrong question. To quote from the 19th century anti-slavery activist Frederick Douglass: “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”

We shouldn’t look to politicians like Mark Carney – or Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre – as top-down saviours. We should be asking: what kind of political space will there be for us as bottom-up organizers to advance our demands and win a better future? 

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Polls suggest Liberals may be on their way to forming a majority government

(Article had to be rewritten after 338Canada released a surprise re-evaluation at 8 AM.)


As Canada prepares for an election, which may be called sometime before parliament is recalled on March 24, polls show the Conservatives and Liberals in a statistical tie. But 6 out of 8 recent polls also show the Liberals rising quickly and now narrowly ahead. On Sunday 338Canada projected the odds of a Conservative forming a majority government has fallen from 99% on January 19 to a mere 13%. About 8 AM Tuesday – an hour after Cortes Currents sent in its daily radio broadcast! – 338Canada revised its projections to suggest Mark Carney’s Liberals may be on it’s way to forming a majority government.

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Jennifer Lash, the Liberal Candiate for North Island-Powell River

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Jennifer Lash has been working at the intersection of the economy, ocean conservation, climate change and reconciliation for the past 27 years. She founded two non-profit organizations in Sointula and more recently was a senior advisor in the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change. Now she is running for election in North Island-Powell River.

“In the situation we’re in right now, with the dire need for strong leadership both at the riding level and nationally. We’re not getting that leadership from the NDP and the Conservative Party. Whether you’re voting for the leader; whether you’re voting for the party; or whether you’re voting strategically: I think the best choice this year is Liberal,” she explained.

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