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2025年1月8日 · Considering that he is the UN’s Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance, economist Mark Carney’s remarks on carbon pricing came as a surprise last May when he told a Senate committee the federal carbon tax had “served a purpose up until now.”. The former Bank of Canada governor suggested anyone who could do better should offer a “credible and predictable alternative.”

3 天之前 · (Version française disponible ici). Many have offered takes on how Canada can best emerge from the current economic spat with the United States after the erosion of trust caused by President Donald Trump’s aggressive tariff threats and untraditional negotiation tactics, which are nothing less than a form of bullying.

2025年2月3日 · Many First Nations communities lack infrastructural security – a term for whether governments and communities have the necessary assets to promote and maintain the economic and social well-being of their members.. This problem on reserves is a “tale as old as time,” steeped in the ongoing legacies of colonialism when the Crown relocated Indigenous communities to reserves to facilitate ...

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2025年1月31日 · Whether Donald Trump acts immediately on his threat to impose broad tariffs on Canada’s exports to the United States or delays them to a later date, Canada is stuck in the upside down.. When the president’s nominee for commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, offers assurances that Canada might be able to avoid immediate tariffs if it addresses concerns that Canada is a haven for Mexican drug ...

2024年11月11日 · Viral videos of an Indian student living under a bridge in Toronto, long lines of students desperately seeking entry-level jobs at strip malls and concerns over poor education quality at some colleges are among the many factors that prompted the federal government to impose caps on international students.. In turn, Ottawa has left it to provinces to determine how many permits each school receives.

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2025年1月23日 · On farms around the world, data is increasingly being used to guide agricultural practices from influencing what crops to plant and when to plant them, to managing pests and allocating resources efficiently. Vast swaths of information — on crop yields, soil health, weather patterns, worker demographics, labour hours, production costs, and environmental impact — are compiled using many ...