Jim Prentice

WWF warns of global boycotts over Baffin Bay polar bear hunt quota (lying WWF)

The World Wildlife Fund is condemning Nunavut for maintaining its polar bear hunt quota in the Baffin Bay area, warning that boycotts may follow the decision. CBC News revealed this week that Environment Minister Olayuk Akesuk...

Y2Kyoto: If You Don't Believe In Global Warming

Why oh why is PM Harper so gong ho on this junk file? With putting his strongest man, Jim Prentice on it...I'm hoping it's all to deal with selling our energy to the US with maximum return tied to some sort of carbon exchange...

Tories warned of biofuel risks

The Harper government was warned by its own experts at Environment Canada two years ago that a multibillion-dollar plan to boost production of green fuels could cause more problems than benefits, Canwest News Service has learned.

Panel Invites the Public to Express its Views Starting December 1, 2008

The panel mandated to review Hydro-Québec's Romaine Hydroelectric Complex Project will be holding the second part of the public hearing starting December 1, 2008. A live audio broadcast of the sessions will be available on the...

PM stuck 'rival' Prentice in smaller shoes: insiders

There is still much speculation about Jim Prentice's move to the environment portfolio. Was he shuffled out of industry because he is indispensable to moving the Harper environmental agenda forward or because he posed a threat...

Canada Seeks Climate Pact with United States

OTTAWA—Canada's Conservative government is interested in negotiating a climate change pact with the incoming administration of U.S. President-elect Barack Obama, which looks set to take a tougher line on the environment than...

Canada seeks climate pact with USA

OTTAWA — Canada's Conservative government is interested in negotiating a climate change pact with the incoming administration of President-elect Barack Obama, which looks set to take a tougher line on the environment than did...

WWF warns of global boycotts over Baffin Bay polar bear hunt quota

The World Wildlife Fund is condemning Nunavut for maintaining its polar bear hunt quota in the Baffin Bay area, warning that boycotts may follow the decision. CBC News revealed this week that Environment Minister Olayuk Akesuk...

New season starts for CBC's 'Canada's Next Great Prime Minister'

TORONTO - If you think you've got what it takes to run Canada, you have until Nov. 15 to get your application in. That's the deadline for submissions to become part of CBC's Emmy-nominated TV reali...

Ottawa swoops in with climate-change offer

SHAWN MCCARTHY AND CAMPBELL CLARK From Thursday's Globe and Mail OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper is proposing to strike a joint climate-change pact with president-elect Barack Obama, an initiative that would seek to...