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Canada's National Observer (CNO) delivers vital reporting on the defining crisis of our time: climate change. Through rigorous investigation and compelling storytelling, we expose the forces shaping Canada's climate future.
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We're going public today with a powerful new tool for researching, following and reporting on local governments across Canada.

It’s dragging cities and towns into the 21st century by making 550 municipalities’ public meetings easy to search, all in one place, for the first time.
Canada’s National Observer unveils a powerful tool for fighting disinformation
Civic Searchlight brings together municipal meeting transcripts from across Canada into a searchable database for the first time. It has already been used to fight disinformation, report on impact, di...
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Only two days left to register! Oct 9, 2PM ET: Learn how Canada and the EU are coordinating on wildfire prevention and response from those leading the charge, including EU Ambassador Geneviève Tuts. @euincanada.bsky.social

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In partnership with Canada’s National Observer, the Delegation of the European Union to Canada will host a panel discussion on cooperation against wildfires. The event aims to highlight EU-Canada alig...
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 1d
As wildfire seasons grow longer and more destructive, Canada and the EU are strengthening their partnership on prevention and response. Oct 9, 2PM ET: Hear from EU Ambassador Geneviève Tuts, EU and Canadian officials shaping international wildfire policy. Register now
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Stronger Together Against Wildfires: Canada and the EU . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
In partnership with Canada’s National Observer, the Delegation of the European Union to Canada will host a panel discussion on cooperation against wildfires. The event aims to highlight EU-Canada alig...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d
"We’re operationalizing our old corridors—taking ancient trade routes our elders told us about and articulating them in a modern context."

Indigenous nations plan tariff-free trade corridor across US-Canada border.

From our friends at @nationalobserver.com:
Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border
“We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."
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That thud you might have heard on Sept. 29 was the fall of a Canadian giant that has been staggering around for some time. But it was once Canada’s largest oil company, helping drive virtually every major innovation in Canadian oil and gas since the late 19th century, @rossbelot.bsky.social writes.
The fall of a Canadian giant
The new Imperial Oil is essentially a collection of operating plants run out of “global business centres.” That is, not run from Canada or by Canadians. This isn’t just a corporate restructuring. It’s...
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First Nations leaders say MLA Anna Kindy and MP Aaron Gunn’s social media comments undermine reconciliation and echo harmful narratives, while BC NDP slams “dog whistle politics.”
BC Conservatives face renewed accusations of residential school denialism
First Nations leaders say MLA Anna Kindy and MP Aaron Gunn’s social media comments undermine reconciliation and echo harmful narratives, while BC NDP slams “dog whistle politics.”
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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is wielding a series of deceptive statements, from environmental regulations shutting-in production to Ottawa stopping pipeline construction, to make her case for a new oil pipeline to the coast.
Breaking down the justification behind Danielle Smith’s ‘pipeline to nowhere’
Oil production in Canada hit record highs last year, the Trans Mountain expansion pipeline is in operation, and more fossil fuel infrastructure keeps getting built, yet in Alberta Premier Danielle Smi...
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 5d
David Suzuki counts Jane Goodall among his top inspirations, but he isn't grieving her death.

He’s grieving she never got to see the big changes to the political, economic and legal systems that destroy nature and must be reformed.
Jane Goodall died before the world caught up, Suzuki says
David Suzuki counts Jane Goodall among his top inspirations, and said he isn't grieving her death — he's grieving the political, economic and legal systems that destroy nature have not been changed th...
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 5d
Danielle Smith is daring Mark Carney to rubber-stamp another pipeline to the West Coast. If she actually wants it to get built, she'll need to put more on the negotiating table than just threats and political rhetoric, @maxfawcett.bsky.social writes.
How Alberta could actually get its pipeline
If Danielle Smith actually wants to advance the prospects of a new oil pipeline, she needs to do more than just rattle her well-worn sabre at Ottawa.
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 5d
With pro- and anti-pipeline positions indelibly staked out by First Nations, BC and Alberta, the only remaining question is the same one that’s been hanging over Carney’s government since he set the two trains in motion: which one will he choose?
After Smith's pipeline announcement, Carney should brace for impact
Alberta’s decision to submit a pipeline proposal forces Ottawa to choose between BC and Alberta
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Sonal Gupta @sonalg.bsky.social · 6d
BC First Nations feel 'déjà vu'

Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, President of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs, told Canada's National Observer the last decade's fight against fossil fuel pipelines by Indigenous groups will be repeating itself through legal battles and blockades.
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Danielle Smith says Alberta itself will be the proponent for a new pipeline to the BC coast.
BREAKING: Alberta announces new pipeline application
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced a new proposed pipeline on Wednesday to carry oil from Alberta to the West Coast. The province itself will be the proponent applying to the federal Major Proje...
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Marilyn Slett, chief councillor of the coastal Heiltsuk Nation accused Smith of moving “way outside of jurisdiction” using “backdoor methods” that disrespect Indigenous peoples and British Columbia.
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@climatekeith.bsky.social, senior energy strategist with Greenpeace, said Smith is "starting a fight she knows she can't win so she can claim everyone is against Alberta when this economically unsound project doesn’t go ahead.“
BREAKING: Alberta announces it will be the proponent of a new pipeline application
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced a new proposed pipeline on Wednesday to carry oil from Alberta to the West Coast. The province itself will be the proponent applying to the federal Major Proje...
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 6d
"It would be optimal if a proponent had a clear path to being able to get a project approved without the need to partner with government," Smith said. "But that's not the world we live in."
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 6d
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Danielle Smith says Alberta itself will be the proponent for a new pipeline to the BC coast.
BREAKING: Alberta announces new pipeline application
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced a new proposed pipeline on Wednesday to carry oil from Alberta to the West Coast. The province itself will be the proponent applying to the federal Major Proje...
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 12d
Many appointees come from a business background but one council member in particular — Treaty 8 First Nations Grand Chief Trevor Mercredi — was a vocal critic of Carney’s major projects legislation.
Meet Carney's Indigenous Advisory Council
The prime minister's newly appointed council is stacked with business and economic development leaders — as well as one vocal critic of Bill C-5.
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Cloe Logan @cloelogan.bsky.social · 13d
Today for @nationalobserver.com, I dig into the federal gov's off diesel goal by 2030 for remote Indigenous communities. That goal was stated as a commitment, but a briefing note we obtained shows the feds never believed it could meet the target — considering it, rather, as “directional.”
Ottawa knew getting the North off diesel by 2030 was impossible, despite promises
Experts say the federal goal was unrealistic from the start, but progress made so far shows a pathway forward if governments keep funding clean projects in remote Indigenous communities.
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Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna.bsky.social · 13d
“Why does anyone think they'll uphold any of their side of any bargain that is made? They did nothing other than fight every single policy, and there are none of these policies now in any serious way.” My take on oilsands.

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Catherine McKenna isn’t buying Carney’s carbon capture grand bargain
In a wide-ranging interview ahead of the launch of her memoir, former climate minister Catherine McKenna warns consequences are coming for the fossil fuel industry, even as the federal government purs...
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 13d
Toronto's landfill has the fastest security guard on the planet patrolling its airspace
Feathered security guard patrols Toronto landfill
A bird with no name hovers daily over mountains of waste at a Toronto landfill — as flocks of gulls flee in every direction.
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 13d
The former environment minister said carbon capture and sequestration — which Carney has thrown his support behind — is "not a get-out-of-jail-free card to continue increasing emissions.”
Catherine McKenna isn’t buying Carney’s carbon capture grand bargain
In a wide-ranging interview ahead of the launch of her memoir, former climate minister Catherine McKenna warns consequences are coming for the fossil fuel industry, even as the federal government purs...
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 14d
The Trudeau-era strategy of influencing policy by lobbying high-level officials isn't working for climate groups — who are now pivoting to an outsider game in an attempt to find leverage in the age of Carney.
Shut out of meetings, environmental groups fight for Carney's consideration
Replaying the Trudeau-era strategy of influencing policy by lobbying high-level officials isn't working for climate groups who are now pivoting to an outsider game in an attempt to find leverage in th...
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 15d
The long saga of the ostriches versus the government in interior BC appears to be hitting a climax.
Food inspection agency serves warrant on BC ostrich farm facing cull of 400 birds
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has served a warrant on a British Columbia ostrich farm where nearly 400 birds have been ordered culled, requiring the farmers to leave or risk being removed from t...
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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 16d
The courtyard in the middle of the Louvre was once a parking lot. Like so much of downtown Paris though, it's been wrested from cars and returned to human beings. I went there to see what that feels like. My new column:
Paris paved the parking lot, and put up the pyramids
Paris has become a cycling paradise, joining other European cities in prioritizing active transportation. But it would be a mistake to assume this is just the natural course of history — or that North...
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 18d
As owners of the Trans Mountain pipeline we should repurpose it for the benefit of Canada. That's a nation-building project worth doing, @rossbelot.bsky.social writes.
A reality check on nation building
We can either stay hewers of wood and drawers of water, or finish the job and keep the refining profit in Canada.
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 19d
A review of Imperial’s recent earnings call shows the Strathcona Renewable Diesel plant launched in August with “grey hydrogen” — that is, hydrogen produced with fossil gas and without carbon capture, despite promises otherwise.

New regulations aren't helping push industry in the right direction.
Biofuel subsidy boosts industry at environment's expense
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, n...
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