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Joe Oliver says relax.
Canadians should rest assured the country’s 800,00-kilometre pipeline network is safe, he says, and Ottawa’s making it safer. The Natural Resources Ministerannounced measures Wednesday to keep energy companies on the hook for their environmental damage.
Anna Mehler Paperny and Leslie Young – Global News
Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver says new rules for pipeline companies make a safe system safer and the companies more accountable.
But even as he touted tougher penalties and expectations of corporate transparency, he said there’s no need for the National Energy Board to beef up enforcement or publish its own investigation and inspection reports.
Anna Mehler Paperny – Global News
Strategies to prevent another devastating Albertan deluge sat on the provincial government’s desk for more than half-a-dozen years.
And the now-retired MLA behind that report got more attention for it this week than he ever had.
Stephen Spencer Davis and Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
As emergency crews searched for survivors buried beneath the rubble of a collapsed mall last summer, both the rescue teams and government staffers struggled to rein in a muddled message in the glare of media coverage and a distraught community.
Anna Mehler Paperny and Jennifer Tryon, Global News
Heather Richer was in her van at dawn June 24, ready to drive to work before her Sunday customers trickled in.
It was only after the car was in motion that she remembered: There was no work to go to. The mall that housed her restaurant was a crumpled hulk after a crashing rooftop parking lot sent concrete slabs through two floors the previous afternoon.
Anna Mehler Paperny and Leslie Young, Global News
A gas pipeline ruptured by flood-driven debris continued to leak sour gas Thursday evening as a record-setting deluge in southern Alberta prevented workers from shutting it off.
Leslie Young and Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
A 9.5-million litre spill of oil-extraction wastewater detected in northwest Alberta this month was the province’s tenth largest “produced water” spill in almost four decades.
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As the federal Conservatives push to stiffen sentences for mentally ill offenders, Ontario is beefing up a forensic psychiatric system under increasing strain – its user population has quadrupled in two decades.
Anna Mehler Paperny and Nicole Bogart, Global News
Reports that U.S. authorities have been trawling for data from the biggest companies on the internet have so rattled Canada’s Privacy Commissioner, she’s seeking clarity from the country’s cryptologic agency to find out what this means for Canadians.
Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Ontario Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian doesn’t pull her punches on PRISM, the no-longer-so-secret U.S. surveillance program that apparently gained direct access to servers of mammoth communications companies. But she doesn’t think we should eulogize online privacy just yet.
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