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And if most other countries don't do the same, Canada's just shooting itself in the foot and climate change will continue unabated. Climate change isn't significantly influenced by Canada's emissions from new oil sands development. It's a blip in the machine. Canada in total produces 1.6% of global GHG emissions. The USA is 15%. Canada shouldn't lead the way on emissions reductions, it should follow. There's no benefit to the world or to Canada in being a leader, only economic stagnation. The US, China, EU, India, Russia etc need to be leaders because they produce the most emissions.

It must be contagious. It didn't take that long for his true color to show. They're circling the wagon. Protecting Trudeau! It's bad enough that last Sunday on Question Period, he tried to put Peter McKay on the hot seat (but McKay pushed back and made Solomon looked like a non-credible pundit)......but yesterday, he tried to twist legalities around this guy from Alberta, regarding Bill 1 (particularly the protests/blockades happening now). “[Bill 1] imposes stiff new penalties on law breakers who purposefully block critical, essential infrastructure, such as railways, roadways, telecommunication lines, utilities, oil and gas production and refinery sites, pipelines, and related infrastructure,” Solomon keeps arguing that it infringes on the right to protest! WHICH PART OF "ESSENTIAL," IS TOO HARD TO UNDERSTAND? Even after the guy explained that they cannot block highways and train tracks - Solomon still insisted on the right to protest. PARDON ME? What about the PEOPLE's right that these protesters are preventing from being exercised? Why are they preventing people from going to places? People lose incomes, businesses lose money etc.....just because these THUGS intimidate and prevent the rights of others from being exercised! Evan, I don't care about their f***ing grievances! They have to exercise their freaking right to protest without stepping on others' right! Moron.

Earth has a "new" temporary moonlet... https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/mini-moon-1.5478308 http://www.sci-news.com/astronomy/mini-moon-2020-cd3-08170.html https://www.technologyreview.com/f/615293/earth-just-gained-a-new-mini-moonbut-it-wont-be-around-for-long/ Earth has a tiny new companion in its journey around the sun — at least for now. The new "mini-moon" is an asteroid called 2020 CD3. It's about 1.9 to 3.5 metres in diameter, roughly between the size of a cow and a hippopotamus. I believe Earth also has a semi-permanent artificial moonlet in the form of Apollo 12's upper stage which is in some sort of resonance orbit with our Lagrange points that occasionally captures and ejects it along a predictable path. If seen from a vantage point in space, it would look like a huge corkscrew maneuver followed by several looping orbits...or something similar.

If you want to get more in depth on the subject try reading ret Lcol David Grossman books, titled on killing, and on combat, he is a soldier / shrink who is a subject matter expert, before we went on my first tour to Afghanistan we attended on of his lectures, there is not much he does not know about the topic... The field is more populated by males, but I have fought with female infanteers as well, like I said I served with some of the best warriors in Canada.

I don't hate unions (uh...OK, maybe a little) but what I DO object to is the removal of freedoms for companies and/or individuals to work as they see fit. Once a company has been organized, it is no longer free to seek other arrangements for workers and some times contractors. Success laws can even be attached to the BUILDING - and thus directly affects the value. Unions DID once serve a really important purpose: they provided trades training and certification to protect the world from incompetent work - but today they CAN and often ARE a haven for poor quality workers to hide from the repercussions of their ineptitude. The collective bargaining thing came in after the trade unions were already established as training and certification organizations. The money part for the trades and non-trade workers started from INDUSTRY, not the unions. It was Henry Ford - admitedly to serve his personal vision of what the overall marketplace should be - that got the ball rolling at $5 a day. When the US unions were invaded by the Mafia and Canadian ones by socialists, the role shifted to one of money ruling over professionalism and the political element becoming EXTREMELY partisan. Again, all things I can live with...ONLY IF there is no special privilege granted to organized labour that workers and companies should be free to seek alternatives if they so choose. There is NO REASON that organized labour can not co-exist within a right-to-work environment. They just have to be competitive in both cost AND responsibility. I should add: we work regularly with some VERY reasonable unions in Canada and the US, even as non-union contractors. Those reasonable unions realize that we are there to give them our particular skill and experience that allows them to keep their jobs and do them in a safer and more sustainable manner. We also supplement our engineering, CET and trades staff with calls to the hall for trades on many, many projects.

Yes, I know. I meant men as in "the Human Beings" described the movie LIttle Big Man. Or as our Jewish friends would say, a Mensch. For you see, there are very few actual human beings you meet whom you might call a Mensch. The rest of you people are all just bloody savages. Cheers, OW

I support environmental safeguards but to think shutting down this potential work saves the planet or deals with the environmental issues is just not the case. Its the opposite. It in fact empowers worse polluters elsewhere. The idea you can't exploit any natural resources without it being evil is just not the cas Keeping the country without any economic activity from which to generate profit to finance environmental research makes no sense or cents. I get protecting the environment but we need a balanced approach. You can't give birth (to new ideas) when you don't engage in intercourse (with industry).

Love him or hate him, the guy is hilarious.

Let us loose in the galaxy and our religious exceptionalism, hubris and good old fashioned greed will make us proverbial monsters from outer space.

I don't know what "infilcted" means...perhaps you meant "inflicted"...just guessing...not questioning your intelligence. So Canada must cover "stupid" Trump because it is so dependent on the U.S. economy ? Let me check...nope...U.S. media does not cover Trudeau news conferences...LIVE ! I am very partisan, especially against foreign hacks who think Americans of any stripe should follow their misguided ideology.

Trump is CBC's bread & butter these days. They LOVE Trump...well...hate him...but LOVE the clicks and comments. CBC comment sections on Trump articles routinely get thousands of anti-Trump posts. Most of them right off their rockers with TDS.

So really, who is actually protesting, and pn what planet do the words peaceful protest and AK-47 appear in the same sentence? Ottawa intends to infringe upon or usurp the Aboriginal rights of all those Indigenous people who want the pipeline, then the Trudeau government should come right out and say so. Either way, Ottawa should uphold the honour of the Crown, discharge its fiduciary duty to those Indigenous communities, and uphold the damn law. https://nationalpost.com/opinion/terry-glavin-uphold-the-rights-of-all-indigenous-canadians-not-just-anti-pipeliners we‘re leaving, we’re leaving on a strong note, not in defeat,'" said Trish Mills, a well-known Hamilton anarchist." Please remind me: Is Trish a hereditary leader of the Hamilton anarchists, or was Trish elected? https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-go-trains-cancelled-as-protesters-set-up-new-blockades-near-toronto/

It somehow doesn't surprise me that such an effort would be peopled by cringing, guilt-ridden lefties who probably cry every time they think of what a shameful past Canada has. I'd certainly never trust the likes of you to deal with natives on any subject whatever. It'd be like asking a Muslim religious fanatic to negotiate with Muslims on our behalf. Everyone in the country would soon be wearing burkas and beards. And I know what your 'training' involves. Did you get to hold the feather and cry in remorse and promise you'd try to do better at being an evil settler?

The Provincial Ministry I work with is very involved in reconciliation; we are required to take training and apply the concepts daily. Your "garnering" is so far off track, its laughable. You should consider knowing what you are talking about before bleating about what it means.

Weird that he used to be coherent when he spoke in public. Now he can't even read a teleprompter.

Bribing the Indians into dependence is not the way to let the Indians up, that's how you hold them down.

My favourite thing about you people is your constant proclaiming of climate change as an urgent issue, but continue to give the biggest emitter in the world a pass on reducing emissions for another 10 years. You'd rather deny First Nations people the dignity of a good paying job, all for symbolism over substance. Ruin the lives of Canadians so that China can increase emissions for the next decade. Sound logic there.

My bad eyeball, it includes the entire west coast, including BC,

Into the toilet? .For a lot of natives. It would have provided 2500 long term, well paid jobs. But yes, it would have emitted CO2 - 25% more CO2 than a pair of cement factories which were recently built in Ontario and Quebec, which faced no environmental hearings, which the Quebec government exempted from environmental regulations, and which will produce perhaps 250 jobs. But... they were jobs in Quebec and Ontario. So everyone rushed them through without questioning anything. But only in Canada. Nowhere else. Hundreds of coal fired power plants going up, new coal fields opening up, places around the world spewing away happily and making money out of it. But no, only Canada must do this, beggar ourselves, while others play. Because... well, we're so gosh darn noble! Or perhaps build rocket ships, or make office chairs or something? It doesn't work that way. They're a resource company, and they said that Canada is too politically unstable for resource development at this time. That's the sort of language they usually use for third world companies who have guerrila war problems. No, they'll find a third world country with more stability and invest money and create jobs there.

You think they could develop that in the North especially around all those remote communities who do not have manufacturing plants nearby nor any other means of income except the public purse. Would be great if they could but the fact is that can't and won't happen - due to the remoteness. So as you cheer for the demise of the Teck mine, know that you are supporting the continued impoverishment of those communities.

Or perhaps they could do both. Focus on the present and the future! What a concept. Alas, I know I know, only China has the alarmists permission to pollute significantly over the next decade or two. Only China is allowed to pursue such mines. Only China is allowed to pursue rare earth materials etc. This from the sane mouth that pretends selling oil to China is a threat. God the hypocrisy!

Excuse me but you know full well BC has far less control over our salmon that AB, Sask and Man have over their fossil fuels. But don't get me wrong I'm all for a rewrite that puts us on par with these three.

Donald Trump wins Iran's election!!!! https://nypost.com/2020/02/21/the-winner-of-irans-latest-election-donald-j-trump/ Iran’s “supreme leader,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, declared it the “religious and patriotic duty” of people to vote in Friday’s elections, demanding a high turnout to strike a victory over “US propaganda” that seeks “to create a division between the Islamic establishment and the people.” Oops: Looks like this is another election President Trump won. The regime may report otherwise, but all independent accounts show that Khamenei’s call — and others, like a top presidential adviser’s warning that low turnout would “please Iran’s enemies” — went over like a lead balloon. Citizen journalists tweeted pictures and videos of empty polling booths Friday; London-based news site Middle East Eye reported that government data showed only “a fifth of registered voters” showing up to cast their ballots. A correspondent for the UK paper The Independent saw “only relatively small crowds,” commenting on a “subdued and somber” mood among Iranians. It surely didn’t help that the Khamenei-controlled Council of Guardians kicked 9,000 moderate and reformist candidates off the ballot. That was apparently the only way to ensure the new Parliament didn’t back negotiations to end US sanctions over the regime’s push to build nuclear weapons. Of course, no election can change the Islamic dictatorship’s power structure — Khamenei, the unelected religious leader, ultimately pulls the strings no matter what. But this public show of no confidence may bring Iran closer to the day when the regime finally falls.