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Cost of Climate Change, Politics

UN Says Nations Have a Legal Obligation to Address Climate Change; Trump Tweets Otherwise

The UN backed a world court opinion stating that countries have a legal obligation to address climate change. Canada, China and every EU country except Czechia were among the 141 nations that supported the resolution. The United States, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Iran were among the eight that voted in opposition. Twenty-eight countries abstained. 

UN Secretary-General António Guterres tweeted, “I welcome the adoption of the General Assembly resolution on the @CIJ_ICJ’s (International World Court) advisory opinion on climate change – a powerful affirmation of international law, climate justice, science & the responsibility of states to protect people from the escalating climate crisis. Those least responsible for climate change are paying the highest price. That injustice must end.”

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Politics

Should Canada become part of the EU?

During the EU-Canada summit in Brussels last June, Prime Minister Mark Carney declared, “As the most European of the non-European countries, Canada looks first to the European Union to build a better world.” 

This is a sentiment that found surprisingly strong echoes within the Canadian public at large, in an era where President Donald Trump’s economic and political tantrums are prominent. 

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Politics

Mark Carney: ‘Principled and pragmatic, Canada’s path forward’ (Full Text)

republished from the Prime Minister of Canada website

Full text of the speech Prime Minister Mark Carney gave at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, in Davos Switzerland, On January 20, 2026.

Thank you, Larry.

It’s a pleasure – and a duty – to be with you tonight in this pivotal moment that Canada and the world are going through.

Tonight, I’ll talk about a rupture in the world order, the end of a pleasant fiction, and the beginning of a harsh reality where geopolitics – where the large, main power – is submitted to no limits, no constraints.

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Politics

There is no easy way for Canada to de-escalate the trade war

By John Woodside, Canada’s National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

As a federal election kicks off, the trade war with the U.S. is casting a long shadow  over voters’ choices, and whoever forms the next government will have  the tall order of trying to draw this conflict to a close. 

“President  Trump wants to break us so America can own us,” said Liberal Leader  Mark Carney at a campaign stop in Gander, NL on Monday. “We are over the  shock of betrayal, but we should never forget the lessons. We have to  look out for ourselves.”

International trade experts interviewed by Canada’s National Observer say  that will be much easier said than done. The two economies are more  integrated than ever before, and President Donald Trump’s chaotic  governing style makes it extremely difficult to know how to even begin  to unravel this dispute. 

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Environment

Vancouver Island community wants government held liable for ship-breaking pollution

Canada’s National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

A Vancouver Island community long frustrated by a ship-breaking operation leaching toxic heavy metals into the ocean is pitching a legal argument that the provincial government may be liable for pollution violations. 

Union Bay residents are calling out provincial and federal regulators for failing to shut down Deep Water Recovery, a company dismantling ships for years on the shoreline of Baynes Sound, said Marilynne Manning, vice president of the Concerned Citizens of Baynes Sound (CCOBS).

Pollution from the large-vessel dismantling operation is a concern for human health and the environment, on land and in water, Manning said. The sensitive area, she added, is also home to the last commercial herring fishery on the coast and half of B.C.’s shellfish farms. 

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