Roundup: Some good news on emissions reductions

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As the end of COP28 approaches, and all of the ensuing insanity that surrounds it, there was a bit of good news closer to home, where Environment Canada says that the latest modelling shows that we are on track to meet our interim targets on the way to the 2030 targets. That’s not the enhanced targets, mind you, and there is still a log of work to do, but this is at least a bit of good news that yes, the emissions curve is bending downwards now, and it’s further proof that the Conservatives’ usual defeatist complaint that the government hasn’t reduced emissions (outside of the height of the pandemic) isn’t true, and that yes, the carbon price is working, so their demands to lift it would be even more self-defeating.

Ukraine Dispatch:

It appears that there has been another attempted Russian airstrike over Kyiv, but that air defences are working, but four people were injured by falling debris. There was also a drone attack in the southern Kherson region on Saturday that killed one civilian. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attended the presidential inauguration in Argentina (where he was sat next to Viktor Orbán and appears to have given him a talking-to).

Good reads:

  • Justin Trudeau and Mélanie Joly met with a group of Middle Eastern foreign ministers on the situation in Gaza on Saturday.
  • Jonathan Wilkinson says that Danielle Smith’s insistence that she can reach net zero while still increasing oil and gas production is “logically incoherent.”
  • Patty Hajdu is set to tabled First Nations water legislation this week, but there are disputes as to just how much this was actually co-developed with First Nations.
  • Federal officials are set to announce the phasing-in of federal dental benefits, which should start processing claims by May of next year.
  • The federal government’s deal with Visa and Mastercard to lower swipe fees for small businesses has a revenue cap that limits its effectiveness.
  • Here is the tale of a disabled veteran who can’t get Veterans Affairs to pay for a cover for his truck bed, where he keeps his wheelchair.
  • Here is a longread about the complications surrounding immigration law for Inuit and First Nations, who don’t recognise international borders.
  • The new premier of the Northwest Territories wants a complete exemption of the carbon price in the territories. (Good luck with that).
  • Kevin Carmichael looks at how immigration and the housing supply are problems the government is learning from, though not fast enough to have consequences.
  • Susan Delacourt wonders what is up with the Conservatives now that they have voted against Ukraine’s interests several times now.
  • Althia Raj sees hope in the Senate pushing back against the weaponisation of social media with the recent privilege challenge on bullying and intimidation.
  • My weekend column looks at some recent statistics on the impact that climate change is having, and why it makes no sense for parties to oppose climate action.

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