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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith did not mince words over Ottawa’s new greenhouse gas emissions cap announced Monday. “I’m pissed — I’m absolutely angry,” Smith said at a news conference.“We’ve been working with these guys for two years because we have a plan that would reduce emissions responsibly by 2050 and they continue to act like they are working collaboratively with us — then they come out with exactly same policy they put forward a year ago, with no changes whatsoever and then trying to mislead the public about the true intent.”The Alberta premier said the cap violates Canada’s constitution, explaining Section 92A gives provinces exclusive jurisdiction over non-renewable natural resource development, “yet this cap will require a one million barrel a day production cut by 2030.”Smith ...

By David Cummings The Canadian Press Posted November 4, 2024 3:15 pm 2 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size A Conservative MP wants Parliament to undo changes made by the Liberals last year that brought natural health products under the same regulations as pharmaceuticals. The new rules mean Health Canada can demand that stores pull products such as supplements and homeopathic medicines off their shelves if they are found to be a health risk, and impose bigger fines on companies that don’t comply with regulations.Alberta Conservative MP Blaine Calkins is seeking to reverse the changes entirely in a pr...

A new U.S. election poll that shows U.S. Vice-President Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump in the traditionally Republican state of Iowa has sent shockwaves through the presidential race just before Election Day on Tuesday. But experts are still warning that the race overall is so close that no single poll — even from a source as reputable as Iowa pollster J. Ann Selzer, using a different methodology than others — can accurately predict what may happen on Nov. 5.“This is one poll, in one state, at one moment in time,” said Samara Klar, a polling expert and political science professor at the University of Arizona.“It’s certainly interesting and will be looked back on with some interest (after Election Day), but we still can’t predict what will happen.”The Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll r...