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Pages tagged "sustainability"


The unsung merits of supply management

Posted on News & Blogs · September 02, 2015 3:59 PM

supply_management_thumb.jpgYou’d think that milk in Canada was coloured red considering the debate about our dairy industry. 

The way we manage our milk supply is being scrutinized by our trading partners in the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations. They don’t like how farmers run the dairy industry and want the federal government to let them in to sell us their products. This country’s think tanks and pundits have lined up to lambaste the system.

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Stephen Harper: the environment's best friend

Posted on In the News by NationBuilder Support · August 01, 2014 5:00 AM

Bear with me: I want to tell you about an odd thought I had the other day that may induce minor whiplash. I confess that it tests the bounds of believability. But I actually think it’s true:

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Is Canada putting all of its eggs in the oilsands basket?

Posted on In the News by NationBuilder Support · July 14, 2014 10:55 AM

Derek Leahy / DeSmog Canada

The recent shelving of the Joslyn mine oilsands project in Alberta is a reminder of the fragile economics of the oilsands. No economic formula could be found to make the $11 billion project work and it has been put on hold indefinitely. 

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Tim Hudak’s jobs plan would kill green jobs

Posted on News & Blogs by Rick Smith and Ken Neumann · March 04, 2014 7:00 PM

It’s no secret that Ontario needs to create jobs. Our unemployment rate is too high. But it’s very strange to suggest that job creation can be accomplished by killing jobs that people actually have today. And yet, that is exactly what Ontario PC leader Tim Hudak proposed in his jobs plan, which he tabled in the legislature last week.

In addition to some drastic cuts to public sector jobs, Hudak’s pledge to end subsidies to wind and solar power would have the effect of killing thousands of jobs in Ontario’s newest manufacturing sector — green energy.

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