“Net-Zero Tyranny”

A group of older Swiss women have won the first ever climate case victory in the European Court of Human Rights.

The women, mostly in their 70s, said that their age and gender made them particularly vulnerable to the effects of heatwaves linked to climate change.

The court said Switzerland’s efforts to meet its emission reduction targets had been woefully inadequate.

It is the first time the powerful court has ruled on global warming.

Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg joined activists celebrating at the court in Strasbourg on Tuesday.

A non-financial consideration in Canada’s transition to renewable energy is the large amount of land needed compared to other energy sources, like natural gas, a new Fraser Institute report says.

The report notes that while the cost of renewable sources has decreased, the challenge of land consumption—or how much space is needed for wind and solar power generation—remains an obstacle.

Two more premiers are calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to host a First Ministers’ meeting on the carbon tax.

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe and Ontario Premier Doug Ford both released letters April 5 to request a meeting. The premiers of Alberta, Newfoundland, and New Brunswick have already done so.

Why does Quebec get a special deal on the carbon tax?

Quebec:
⛽️ 13¢ /litre of gasoline

Rest of Canada:
⛽️ 17¢ /litre of gasoline

What gives?

Solution isn’t to make Quebec folks pay more, the solution is to SCRAP THE CARBON TAX for everyone!

We put that on a T-shirt!… pic.twitter.com/xZadTarC5Y

— Kris Sims (@kris_sims) April 3, 2024

Canada’s premiers are finally pushing back on the carbon tax as it hits harder and the magic money rebates get less convincing. And you might think it’s weird that the Trudeau administration really believe trace elements of a gas vital to life are the deadliest peril Canadians and humans generally face. But what’s really weird is that the people fighting back all swear they believe these dodgy propositions too. Whatever happened to intelligent thought, or even mindless partisan bickering?

OTTAWA – Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is requesting that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau convene an emergency meeting with the country’s premiers to discuss the federal carbon price.

Poilievre circulated the letter today on social media following the $15-per-tonne increase to the consumer carbon price that kicked in on Monday.

He has spent the past month travelling across the country, including in the Greater Toronto Area, Atlantic Canada and British Columbia, hosting “axe the tax” rallies and vowing to scrap the policy.

It’s an undo or die situation.

That’s Premier Doug Ford’s plea to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the federal carbon price that rose Monday from $65 a tonne to $80.

“The federal government raised the carbon tax yet again — this time by a whopping 23 per cent. Today, the carbon tax now cost 17.6 cents per litre of gas,” the Progressive Conservative premier said Tuesday in at an East Gwillimbury farm.

You almost have to give Justin Trudeau credit for accomplishing the impossible: That’s now twice in his calamitous and divisive tenure that he’s inspired often servile Canadians to come together, en masse, in protest of far-left policies of self-sabotage that only exist for the benefit of a vanishing few.

Protests erupted across the country against the federal carbon tax on Monday — the same day it rose by 23 per cent — while Canada’s only Liberal provincial leader pressed for an emergency meeting to discuss alternative ways to cut emissions.

In a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey called for an emergency meeting of leaders throughout Canada, arguing the program is too costly for his province and doesn’t work as intended.

I could get behind a nation wide general strike.

‘We’ve had enough’: Protests over carbon price hike halt traffic across Canada

’This is just the beginning’: Carbon tax protests block traffic on Trans-Canada Highway