Canada Would Need a $300-Per-Tonne Carbon Tax To Meet Climate Targets: Here’s What We’re Reading
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Here’s what we’re reading today.
1. Secret briefing says up to $300-per-tonne federal carbon tax by 2050 required to meet climate targets
“Environment Canada told Catherine McKenna early in her mandate as minister that a price on carbon would have to go as high as $300 per tonne in 2050 for Canada to meet its climate targets, a secret briefing document shows. The document obtained by the National Post, signed off on by the department’s deputy minister, outlined carbon pricing options for the nascent Liberal government in November 2015. The Conservative party obtained the document with an access-to-information request.”
2. Trump vows war on hard-line conservatives
“President Trump effectively declared war Thursday on the House Freedom Caucus, the powerful group of hard-line conservative Republicans who blocked the health-care bill, vowing to “fight them” in the 2018 midterm elections.
“In a morning tweet, Trump warned that the Freedom Caucus would “hurt the entire Republican agenda if they don’t get on the team, & fast.” He grouped its members, all of them Republican, with Democrats in calling for their political defeat — an extraordinary incitement of intraparty combat from a sitting president.”
3. Ford to invest $1.2 billion in Canada with new R&D centre in Ottawa
“The new research centre in Ottawa will hire 295 engineers, who will work on developing autonomous and connected vehicles.”
+1: A new AI hub in Canada is welcoming the scientists trump is pushing away – Motherboard
4. This is almost certainly FBI director James Comey’s Twitter account
“Because, presumably, if we can find the Instagram accounts belonging to James Comey’s family, we can also find James Comey.”
– Gizmodo
5. Globe and Mail suspends columnist Leah McLaren after breastfeeding controversy
“The Globe and Mail has suspended marquee columnist Leah McLaren for a week. A source told the Star that McLaren has been forbidden to comment on her controversial column or on her suspension.”
