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Royal Bank defends funding B.C.’s Coastal GasLink pipeline despite environmental concerns

Royal Bank of Canada’s chief executive defended the bank’s funding of the Coastal GasLink pipeline Thursday and called for incentives to help the shift to a net-zero economy, as investors and Indigenous groups denounced its support of fossil fuels.A provincial environment inspector gathers sediment from water downstream from a Coastal GasLink pipeline crossing. (B.C. Environmental…

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Controversial royal trip renews questions about monarchy’s future — including in Canada

A recent royal tour intensified a spotlight on Britain’s colonial history, renewing questions about how much longer Commonwealth countries — including Canada — will have a monarch as their head of state.A plane carrying Prince William and Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, arrives at Nassau’s Lynden Pindling International Airport last Thursday. The royal couple’s week-long trip saw them…

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