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The latest study of corporate data from 60 of the world’s largest banks shows that despite commitments to establish emissions targets in their financial portfolios in line with the Paris climate accord, they have instead increased that funding to $3.8 trillion US in the past five years.
MPs will vote soon on a motion introduced by Liberal MP Majid Jowhari calling on Canada to officially recognize August 1 as Emancipation Day — marking the date in 1834 when slavery was abolished in the British Empire.
Like with so many things related to COVID-19 in Canada, tallying up variants of concern is complicated — and interprovincial comparisons are especially tricky because every province measures and reports its data differently. Alberta and Ontario are a case in point.
A conservation group that’s long opposed the B.C. herring fishery is sounding an alarm about a potential dump the spawning fish in Deep Bay, near Bowser on Vancouver Island.