California

A healthcare worker tends to a patient in the Covid Unit at United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, Texas on July 2, 2020. Despite its renowned medical center, with the largest agglomeration of hospitals and research laboratories in the world, Houston is on the verge of being overwhelmed by cases of coronavirus exploding in Texas. (Mark Felix/AFP/Getty Images)

Texas governor Greg Abbott, look at this picture

Image of the Week: This haunting photograph was taken in a Texas hospital just as COVID-19 cases in the state surged after an aggressive reopening plan

Popularity of Donald Trump pinatas a scary sign for Republicans

Latinos describe Trump’s talk of a wall, deportation and Mexican rapists as a national version of what happened in California in 1994

Is Canada leading the world in cancelled energy projects?

May 19: The FT says more than a third of delayed projects world-wide are in Canada. Plus, the battle for water, and employer snooping.

A suspenseful tale of desert survival

Book review: This engrossing wilderness tale starts with a teen who rides the tramway to the California mountains

California’s water woes are man-made—and so is the solution

Colby Cosh on Year Three of a nearly unprecedented drought, and the sustainability of California as we know it

Premier Wynne’s California debt dreams

Deficit spending failed to boost Ontario’s economy—so naturally the Liberals want to spend more

Magical Internet eraser now legally required in California

A silly bill to protect young people on social media

A North American cap-and-trade market (sort of)

A Conservative dream is nearly realized

California comeback

California got hammered by the recession. Now Gov. Jerry Brown has it roaring back — with help from America’s biggest oil field

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Cap-and-trade is coming to Quebec

The Quebec government announced last week that it is moving ahead with plans to link with California’s carbon market.

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Meanwhile, in California…

The state will hold its first auction of carbon credits today.

Can Facebook really solve the organ donor crisis?

As the donor tool comes to Canada, Science-ish investigates