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Up to 39% of range lost in the cold Driving an EV in a Canadian winter just got the ultimate stress test in a real-world winter EV performance study conducted this week by the Canadian Automobile Association (CAA). Vehicles representing
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840 solar or 16 nuclear power plants needed to meet Ottawa’s 2050 emission-reduction target (Vancouver) – The federal government’s plan to eliminate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from electricity generation by 2050 is impossible in practical terms, finds a new study
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Windsor, Ontario has been pinpointed by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce as one of the most vulnerable cities in the face of an American program of tariffs. Photo: RWN
Saint John, Calgary, and Windsor most vulnerable Ottawa, ON — According to new analysis released February 11th by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce’s Business Data Lab, Saint John, New Brunswick, Calgary, Alberta, and Windsor, Ontario, are the Canadians cities most vulnerable
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Canada's Supreme Court building in Ottawa.
Urgent, exceptional and compelling issues raised by prorogation OTTAWA, ON: The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms announces that the Federal Court will hear the constitutional challenge to the decision to prorogue Parliament on Thursday and Friday, February 13 and 14, 2025. Lawyers
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This crash on Highway 11 in Longlake, Ontario, in which two trucks collided head-on. Photo posted by Patrick Leblanc in the Facebook Hearst News Link.
Five fatalities and four critical injuries STATEMENT by Truckers for Safer Highways: It is with deep sadness that we, Truckers for Safer Highways, find ourselves addressing yet another tragic week on Ontario’s roads. The ongoing lack of proper enforcement and
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Surplus Chinese Electric Vehicles in an "EV graveyard." Photo: ACS
Former Liberal MP Dan McTeague calls on Mark Carney and all other leadership candidates to kill Trudeau’s electric car mandate President of Canadians for Affordable Energy (CAE) and former Liberal MP Dan McTeague says, “It’s good that the Trudeau government
Read MoreTo discuss “reversing the rapidly deteriorating state of road safety” Update 1:30pm January 17, 2024: The list of organizations named as attending this meeting should have included the Truck Training Schools Association of Ontario and the Women’s Trucking Federation of
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Canada’s vehicle manufacturers
and auto dealers formally called for the end of the federal electric vehicle sales mandates
brought in by the government in 2023, potentially making charging stations like this Ivy unit obsolete before they see much use. The call to end the mandates comes in the wake of the
federal government ending electric vehicle incentives under the federal iZEV program
yesterday, and a failure to build adequate public charging infrastructure in Canada. Photo: Taxi News
“Federal government’s mandated ZEV sales targets are increasingly unrealistic and must end“ On January 14th on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canada’s vehicle manufacturers and auto dealers formally called for the end of the federal electric vehicle sales mandates brought in
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Handy will pay $2.95M, make changes to its business practices The Federal Trade Commission, along with the New York Attorney General, are taking action against gig economy company Handy Technologies for making a broad array of deceptive claims about how much money
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