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Canada borders on all of the Great Lakes, except Lake Michigan. 1 in 5 Canadians lives in the Great Lakes Basin, nearly all in the Province of Ontario. The federal government plays a role in international treaties, fisheries, and regulation of the nuclear industry.
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[This is an excerpt. Please follow the link below to read the article on the CBC website.]
The Senate voted to pass the omnibus budget implementation bill late Monday, avoiding an election showdown over the issue.
Opposition senators also rejected measures that would diminish the scope of federal environmental assessments and would allow retroactive changes to some excise... (more)
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The political showdown over the government's sweeping 900-page omnibus budget bill will come to a Senate vote Monday or Tuesday and depending on the outcome, the House could be recalled to get the minority governing Conservatives' controversial bill through Parliament.
Critics say the bill will strip Canada's environmental assessments, sell off nuclear reactors, and... (more)
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Environmental groups say if environmental assessment changes are brought back into the government's final sweeping omnibus budget bill, C-9, they will weaken the EA process by giving the federal environment minister the power to scope down offshore oil drilling projects to only study a fraction of operations.
"In the wake of the BP oil disaster, do you Senators really want... (more)
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The Pickering nuclear power plant is killing fish by the millions.
Close to one million fish and 62 million fish eggs and larvae die each year when they’re sucked into the water intake channel in Lake Ontario, which the plant uses to cool steam condensers.
The fish, which include alewife, northern pike, Chinook salmon and rainbow smelt, are killed when they’re trapped... (more)
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Conservative Senator Doug Finley sounds quite eager to fight an election over his party's omnibus budget bill. “I think there's more than enough issues here to run an election on, and I'm ready,” Mr. Finley, the Conservative's federal campaign director, told The Globe this week after the legislation suffered a setback in the Senate.
There is no shortage of issues at... (more)
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This Week has learned the federal government intends to hold a public information session on July 16 about the future of the City's harbour.
The federal government is expected to make an announcement about the amount of funding linked with the confidential agreement council voted on earlier this year.
A public information session about the agreement and the plans it... (more)
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The Conservatives have warned a fall election could be possible after Liberal Senators killed off – at least temporarily – several contentious clauses that the Conservative government had stuffed into an omnibus budget bill.
“Let’s dance,” Conservative Senator Doug Finley said Thursday after Bill C-9, a mammoth 883-page piece of legislation, was chopped down by the... (more)
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The Tories are threatening a fall election after opposition senators stripped contentious provisions from the Harper government's massive budget implementation bill.
Senator Doug Finley, the Tory campaign director, said a fall election is a distinct possibility if senators refuse to pass the bill as is.
“Absolutely,” Finley said in an interview moments after... (more)
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The government has served notice it will force a vote in the Senate this week to cut short plans that Liberal Senators had to draw out hearings on contentious sections of the government massive omnibus budget implementation bill.
Liberal and Conservative Senators told The Hill Times Prime Minister Stephen Harper (Calgary Southwest, Alta.) wants committee study of the bill... (more)
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Stephen Harper has the summer to decide whether hundreds of new jobs created by a proposed $800-million copper-gold mine in the struggling British Columbia Interior outweigh the significant negative environmental impacts, including the destruction of a fishing lake.
A federal review panel ruled late Friday that the Prosperity copper-gold mine would have “significant... (more)
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