Cleantech startup Carbonova Corp. has completed a $6-million funding round aimed at expanding its capacity to produce high-value carbon nanofibres from waste CO2 and methane at commercial scale.Calgary-based Carbonova said the financing was led by South Korean conglomerate Kolon Industries, which is interested in its technology to produce the unusually strong and lightweight material. It said Kolon sees the potential for its use in batteries, plastics and other products within Asia.NGIF Capital, a venture capital fund focused on technology to improve the environmental performance of the gas...…Cleantech startup Carbonova Corp. has completed a $6-million funding round aimed at expanding its capacity to produce high-value carbon nanofibres from waste CO2 and methane at commercial scale.Calgary-based Carbonova said the financing was led by South Korean conglomerate Kolon Industries, which is interested in its technology to produce the unusually strong and lightweight material. It said Kolon sees the potential for its use in batteries, plastics and other products within Asia.NGIF Capital, a venture capital fund focused on technology to improve the environmental performance of the gas...WW…

Campus groups are pushing their peers to make it to the polls for British Columbia's May 9 election, warning that typically low turnout among young voters could make it easier for politicians to ignore them and the issues affecting their lives.Voters younger than 35 tend to have the lowest turnout in Canadian elections and B.C.'s last election was no exception. Fewer than half of registered voters aged 18 to 24 participated in 2013, while fewer than 40 per cent of those aged 25 to 34 voted. And those numbers were worse than the two previous elections.To address these low numbers, the...…Campus groups are pushing their peers to make it to the polls for British Columbia's May 9 election, warning that typically low turnout among young voters could make it easier for politicians to ignore them and the issues affecting their lives.Voters younger than 35 tend to have the lowest turnout in Canadian elections and B.C.'s last election was no exception. Fewer than half of registered voters aged 18 to 24 participated in 2013, while fewer than 40 per cent of those aged 25 to 34 voted. And those numbers were worse than the two previous elections.To address these low numbers, the...WW…

Skip to main contentErica AliniKids these days need good credit scores – and fast.The urgency has little to do with acquiring the ability to borrow at attractive rates. It’s really about the ability to find housing. Canada’s rental shortage means competition among prospective tenants is fierce: Those without a credit history or a good score often don’t make the cut.Landlords want to see credit scores in the “700-plus” range, Toronto real estate agent Sundeep Bahl told me recently. For context, a score of 660 and up is generally considered to be good, according to Equifax Canada.It’s not...…Skip to main contentErica AliniKids these days need good credit scores – and fast.The urgency has little to do with acquiring the ability to borrow at attractive rates. It’s really about the ability to find housing. Canada’s rental shortage means competition among prospective tenants is fierce: Those without a credit history or a good score often don’t make the cut.Landlords want to see credit scores in the “700-plus” range, Toronto real estate agent Sundeep Bahl told me recently. For context, a score of 660 and up is generally considered to be good, according to Equifax Canada.It’s not...WW…

Skip to main contentWhy on Earth do we need provincial driving laws? Why can't we have one license and one set of laws for all the provinces? You travel to another province on vacation and you end up with a nasty surprise because the laws are different. It makes one wonder if the law is about safety or just another government cash cow! - reader commentWhy can't we have nice things, like consistent traffic rules from Victoria to St. John's?"The [Constitution Act of 1867] assigned that matter to provincial authority," said Benjamin Berger, law professor and associate dean of students at...…Skip to main contentWhy on Earth do we need provincial driving laws? Why can't we have one license and one set of laws for all the provinces? You travel to another province on vacation and you end up with a nasty surprise because the laws are different. It makes one wonder if the law is about safety or just another government cash cow! - reader commentWhy can't we have nice things, like consistent traffic rules from Victoria to St. John's?"The [Constitution Act of 1867] assigned that matter to provincial authority," said Benjamin Berger, law professor and associate dean of students at...WW…

OttawaImages are unavailable offline.Police stand guard in Causeway Bay before the annual handover march in Hong Kong, on July. 1, 2020.The Associated PressThe Canadian government is so far giving no indication that it’s prepared to make special accommodations to welcome a possible exodus of Hong Kongers after China imposed a new security law on the former British colony.Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison signalled on Thursday that his government may follow Britain in offering visas to Hong Kong citizens after China passed a law granting Beijing sweeping new powers to crack down on...…OttawaImages are unavailable offline.Police stand guard in Causeway Bay before the annual handover march in Hong Kong, on July. 1, 2020.The Associated PressThe Canadian government is so far giving no indication that it’s prepared to make special accommodations to welcome a possible exodus of Hong Kongers after China imposed a new security law on the former British colony.Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison signalled on Thursday that his government may follow Britain in offering visas to Hong Kong citizens after China passed a law granting Beijing sweeping new powers to crack down on...WW…

Special to The Globe and MailImages are unavailable offline.'The Room Where it Happened,' a book by John Bolton, at the White House in Washington, June 18, 2020. The book describes Bolton’s 17 turbulent months at President Trump’s side through a multitude of crises and foreign policy challenges.Doug Mills/The New York Times News ServiceRobert Rotberg is the founding director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Program on Intrastate Conflict, a former senior fellow at CIGI and president emeritus of the World Peace Foundation.President Donald Trump should have been been found guilty at his...…Special to The Globe and MailImages are unavailable offline.'The Room Where it Happened,' a book by John Bolton, at the White House in Washington, June 18, 2020. The book describes Bolton’s 17 turbulent months at President Trump’s side through a multitude of crises and foreign policy challenges.Doug Mills/The New York Times News ServiceRobert Rotberg is the founding director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Program on Intrastate Conflict, a former senior fellow at CIGI and president emeritus of the World Peace Foundation.President Donald Trump should have been been found guilty at his...WW…

OttawaImages are unavailable offline.'Such options are within the rule of law and could open up space for resolution to the situation of the two Canadians,' Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian, seen here in Beijing on April 8, 2020 in a file photo, said.GREG BAKER/AFP/Getty ImagesThe Chinese government says that if Canada sets Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou free it could affect the fate of two Canadians jailed and charged with espionage by Beijing.China has repeatedly rejected suggestions there is any connection between its detention of former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig and...…OttawaImages are unavailable offline.'Such options are within the rule of law and could open up space for resolution to the situation of the two Canadians,' Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian, seen here in Beijing on April 8, 2020 in a file photo, said.GREG BAKER/AFP/Getty ImagesThe Chinese government says that if Canada sets Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou free it could affect the fate of two Canadians jailed and charged with espionage by Beijing.China has repeatedly rejected suggestions there is any connection between its detention of former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig and...WW…

ReutersImages are unavailable offline.In this Nov. 25, 2019 photo, wind turbines slowly rotate over corn fields in Warsaw, N.Y.Julie Jacobson/The Associated PressThe Trump administration has ended a two-year rent holiday for solar and wind projects operating on federal lands, handing them whopping retroactive bills at a time the industry is struggling with the fallout of the coronavirus outbreak, according to company officials.The move represents a multi-million-dollar hit to an industry that has already seen installation projects cancelled or delayed by the global health crisis, which has...…ReutersImages are unavailable offline.In this Nov. 25, 2019 photo, wind turbines slowly rotate over corn fields in Warsaw, N.Y.Julie Jacobson/The Associated PressThe Trump administration has ended a two-year rent holiday for solar and wind projects operating on federal lands, handing them whopping retroactive bills at a time the industry is struggling with the fallout of the coronavirus outbreak, according to company officials.The move represents a multi-million-dollar hit to an industry that has already seen installation projects cancelled or delayed by the global health crisis, which has...WW…

Tanzania, tanzaniaThe Associated PressImages are unavailable offline.The U.S.-China dispute has been escalating over the pandemic, which has circled the globe causing over 300,000 deaths.DAN KITWOOD/AFP/Getty ImagesChina is going after the United States over more than $1 billion that the Trump administration owes the United Nations in unpaid dues for its regular operating budget and arrears for the separate budget for the U.N.’s far-flung peacekeeping operations.The unusual singling out of the U.S. non-payment by China’s U.N. mission comes as President Donald Trump continues to accuse...…Tanzania, tanzaniaThe Associated PressImages are unavailable offline.The U.S.-China dispute has been escalating over the pandemic, which has circled the globe causing over 300,000 deaths.DAN KITWOOD/AFP/Getty ImagesChina is going after the United States over more than $1 billion that the Trump administration owes the United Nations in unpaid dues for its regular operating budget and arrears for the separate budget for the U.N.’s far-flung peacekeeping operations.The unusual singling out of the U.S. non-payment by China’s U.N. mission comes as President Donald Trump continues to accuse...WW…

A semi-trailer is idling just outside Enmax Corp.’s Shepard gas-fired power plant on Calgary’s eastern outskirts, and it is loaded with a grey granular substance that’s become Apoorv Sinha’s life’s work.Mr. Sinha’s startup, Carbon Upcycling Technologies, has invited business partners and government officials to have a look at the reaction vessel that yielded the powder from the plant’s waste carbon dioxide, and then watch the 40-tonne load trundle away to a concrete batch plant in Edmonton.His team manufactured the additive from the greenhouse gas that otherwise would have been emitted into...…A semi-trailer is idling just outside Enmax Corp.’s Shepard gas-fired power plant on Calgary’s eastern outskirts, and it is loaded with a grey granular substance that’s become Apoorv Sinha’s life’s work.Mr. Sinha’s startup, Carbon Upcycling Technologies, has invited business partners and government officials to have a look at the reaction vessel that yielded the powder from the plant’s waste carbon dioxide, and then watch the 40-tonne load trundle away to a concrete batch plant in Edmonton.His team manufactured the additive from the greenhouse gas that otherwise would have been emitted into...WW…