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Minister says Canada needs ‘infrastructure that gets our energy to tidewater’ at Calgary meeting

By Natasha Bulowski, Canada’s National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter 

Canada’s new energy and natural resources minister championed the energy sector Friday, calling on governments and industry to work together to build the Pathways Alliance’s proposed carbon capture project.

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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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