Ottawa names Indigenous advisory council on major projects

  By Alessia Passafiume in Ottawa Eleven Indigenous leaders from across the country were named to the federal government’s new Indigenous Peoples’ Council on Wednesday, tasked with advising the new federal body working to fast-track major...

Alberta to create standards for releasing oilsands tailings into environment

  The Alberta government is planning to create standards for releasing treated oilsands tailings into the environment. Creating those standards is one of four new policy recommendations pitched by a government-appointed committee tasked over a year ago with...