A rapidly changing climate and a glaring political disconnect

Climate change is on the agenda, but only sometimes, as one of several recurring issues. It might crop up when a town burns down, or when a mountainside slides over a highway in torrential rain disrupting the movement of goods.

Long-time NDP MP Charlie Angus introduced a private member's bill that would ban deceptive advertising from the oil and gas sector, but you'd think he had proposed legalizing child pornography, so violent and dismissive was reaction to his bill. It doesn’t stand a snowball’s chance in Ottawa of surviving, writes Susan Riley. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SUSAN RILEY

February 26, 2024

CHELSEA, QUE.—A block or so from Parliament Hill, Ottawa’s fabled Rideau Canal Skateway has been closed for most of this mild, miserable winter. Last year it never opened at all for the first time in 52 years. It is another daily, observable, inevitable victim of climate...

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