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Carbon Pricing: End and Pipeline Approvals

carbon pricing: It also saw the Conservatives find their feet in their new role as the Official Opposition as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his government started to remake some of the previous government's policies, according to CTV. By the end of the year, though, the clouds started to gather fights with the premiers over health-care funding and carbon pricing, battles with British Columbians over pipeline approvals, and the possibility of a rebuke by Ethics Commissioner Mary Dawson over fundraising made the end of 2016 decidedly less sunny for the Liberals. This year in politics saw the end to one federal leader's time in office - or at least the beginning of the end - and redemption for a beleaguered senator. Here are some of the year's biggest stories in Canadian politics Syrian refugees Nearly 360 communities across Canada have welcomed 36,393 refugees from Syria since November, 2015. But, while seeing the new Canadians learning to toboggan warmed hearts, they face a number of challenges, including learning English and finding jobs. Many of them arrived in January and February as the government went into overdrive to meet its own deadline. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.