Canada is going in the wrong direction fighting climate change

The climate, biodiversity, and pollution emergencies cannot keep being put on hold.

Canada has lavished at least C$13.8-billion per year in public financing on oil and gas projects since signing onto the Paris Climate Agreement, making it the fossil industry’s highest per capita source of public finance in the G20, and their second-largest overall benefactor after China, according to a blistering new report issued todayThe Hill Times file photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY ELIZABETH MAY

June 8, 2020

SAANICH GULF ISLANDS, B.C.—In the midst of a pandemic, it is hard to keep a focus on anything else. When overlaying that pandemic, south of our border, we watch a gathering storm of race-based violence and white supremacy, unmasked on the faces of police officers in state after state,...

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