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Frontier Centre for Public Policy report refutes genocide claims
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Frontier Centre for Public Policy report refutes genocide claims Let us now commit to a future where truth and reconciliation are built on solid foundations of evidence and mutual respect WINNIPEG, July 23, 2024 – A groundbreaking report by the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, authored by Hymie Rubenstein and titled “On […]
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Looking North: Pension funds are key to developing Canada’s critical minerals – Policy Options
July 16, 2024 We need to focus on why, to what end and how our North is both Canada’s greatest investment opportunity and our greatest geopolitical insecurity. Canada needs long-term and venture capital to build infrastructure, innovate and develop its critical minerals to meet the global net-zero energy transition. Pension funds are key to that […]
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Sites of Truth, Sites of Conscience: the Special Interlocutor’s Historical Report – FCPP
July 15, 2024 While OSI states that “the primary purpose of this Report is not to prove that these atrocities happened or that Canada is responsible,” it also declares that “understanding the scope and scale of State wrongdoing and harms makes clear that there is an ongoing need for reparations relating to the missing and […]
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New healthy buildings report signals urgent need for a cross-sector approach
July 11, 2024 Calgary, AB — As extreme weather events accelerate, a new report by the Pembina Institute, Healthy Buildings in a Changing Climate, highlights the critical need for retrofitting existing buildings to safeguard Canadians’ health and safety. Deep retrofits are presented as a strategic investment to enhance occupant health and resilience against these emerging […]
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Healthy Buildings in a Changing Climate – Pembina
July 11, 2024 Improving health with multi-unit residential building retrofits Our latest report, Healthy Buildings in a Changing Climate, underscores the urgent need to retrofit existing buildings to protect Canadians’ health and safety. As extreme weather events grow in frequency and intensity, strategic investments in deep retrofits are essential to mitigate health risks and ensure […]
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Inside Policy: Activism or antisemitism? – MLI
July 10, 2024 It’s a scene that evokes the nightmares of past persecution – a vile strain of antisemitism that attacks Jewish Canadians while shaking the core of our tolerant liberal-democratic Canadian society. In Surrey, BC, masked activists draped in keffiyehs angrily wield placards libelling Israel as a “genocidal state” equivalent to the Nazis. Are […]
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Co-creating cities through Indigenous knowledge and nature-based solutions – IRPP
July 10, 2024 Biodiversity commitments are usually implemented nationally, but it is the cities where many infrastructure and development decisions take place. In a time of rapid urbanization, cities and nature are often seen as incompatible: either biodiversity suffers as cities grow or cities are contained to protect nature. There is no question that human […]
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UNDRIP’S False Promise of Indigenous Nationhood Threatens Individual Indigenous Canadians – FCPP
July 8, 2024 Our Canadian elites, led by Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government, continue to advance the idea that Canada should be a race-based nation. This is reflected in the Trudeau government’s enactment of the racist United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People (UNDRIP) laws and policies. (The UNDRIP Action Plan.) These laws and […]
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New Pembina report assesses state of climate action by governments across Canada
CALGARY, AB — Canada is on track to significantly reduce its emissions this decade, thanks to governments that are implementing policies to reduce emissions and shifting towards low-carbon energy generation and use, a new report by the Pembina Institute and Simon Fraser University has found. All Together Now: A provincial scorecard on shared responsibility to […]
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Seeing energy policy only through the lens of climate change? That time is over: Heather Exner-Pirot and Charles Deland – MLI
July 3, 2024 If there was ever a time where Canadian energy policy could be determined looking only through a lens of climate change, that time is over. This country needs to have a serious conversation. One that recognizes the challenges posed by a warming world – not least an increase in wildfires, drought and heat […]
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