Originally published on the Watershed Sentinel
By Delores Broten
We’ve seen this movie so many times before. Laws are proposed, and sound fine for health and the environment, but the details can render the whole effort worthless. (Buy me a beer and I can recount countless examples.) In this case, the removal of one word can open Canada’s premier environmental law to endless litigation and another fifty years of turtle walk on toxic chemicals.
Continue reading When is “Toxic” …Not?
By Kaitlyn Bailey, Prince Rupert Northern View, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Skeena-Bulkley Valley MP Taylor Bachrach is frustrated by Liberal MPs who voted against his bill to lower the voting age to 16 after it was a recommendation that came out of the Liberal government’s own consultations with youth.
Continue reading Skeena-Bulkley Valley MP’s bill to lower voting age blocked by Conservatives, LiberalsBy Michael Potestio, Kamloops This Week, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo Conservative MP Frank Caputo will vote against implementing the Emergencies Act to address weeks-long Freedom Convoy protests against COVID-19 vaccine mandates that have resulted in a vehicle-clogged downtown Ottawa and border blockades across the country.
“I will be opposing it,” Caputo told KTW, arguing implementing the act should be legislation of the last resort.
It is the stance interim Conservative Leader Candace Bergen has said her party is taking as Parliament on Thursday (Feb. 17) began debating the federal Liberal government’s temporary special measures, which were invoked Monday for the first time since the act was created in 1988 to replace the War Measures Act.
Continue reading Conservatives will vote against implementing Emergencies ActBy Roy L Hales
Having spent 30 years with Environment Canada, Peter Schwarzhoff is often called upon to speak about Climate Change and the nation’s emissions. He also talks about the need to develop jobs, forest related industries, the growing Clean Tech sector and the need to respect Canada’s veterans. The Liberal Candidate For North Island-Powell River covers all of those topics in the attached podcast, as well as the need for Canada to have a government it can trust.
Continue reading The Liberal Candidate For North Island-Powell River
