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They’re the chili peppers in the spicy chicken at a restaurant chain you might know. And they were an ingredient used by a Canadian company to build the first solar power plants in Malawi. About a tenth of Malawi’s grid power now comes from two new solar plants built by …
Read More »The nuclear arms race is heating up. Will it take another bomb to renew the push for disarmament?
The Sunday MagazineWhat lessons the atomic bombings of Japan hold for today’s nuclear world Eighty years after the first atomic bombs fell, experts and survivors warn that the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki could once again be unleashed, as the nuclear arms race heats up. “Most experts believe that the …
Read More »Why is inflation heating up at the grocery store again? Blame the loonie – National
A weak Canadian dollar is being blamed as a key culprit behind sticky inflation at the grocery store, a trend one expert says he expects to persist heading into the holidays. While overall inflation has moderated in recent months, settling back at the Bank of Canada’s two per cent target …
Read More »Ag producers in Saskatchewan call for barn heating exemption to be implemented
Calls from Saskatchewan’s agricultural producers are ringing out after a bill that removed barn heating and cooling fuel from a list that exempts farm activities from carbon pricing was amended. Bill C-234, “An Act to amend the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act,” was amended in the wake of the Senate …
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