Oilsands alliance can’t handle the truth
Asking oil companies to provide evidence for their green claims isn’t censorship, it’s an inoculation against misinformation.
Environmental checkup: reviewing governments’ clean-economy performance
As Canada’s environment ministers prepare to meet, we examined how their governments are performing on climate, energy, and preparedness for the clean economy.
Striking the balance between accuracy and ambition for climate change communications
Limits around promotional speech are valid, but the restrictions in Bill C-59 regarding greenwashing are not the path to get us there.
Federal government weakens its program monitoring pesticides in the environment putting human health at risk
We have a right to know where, when, and how pesticides are used. The monitoring program desperately needs the oversight of experts such as independent academics who are free of conflicts of interest with profit-making from pesticides and their use.
Waste is a valuable resource and the key to sustainability
By 2050, when net-zero becomes a reality, we will need to have shaped our world where biomimicry and industrial symbiosis are at the heart of the economy, ensuring that resources are used wisely and sustainably, paving the way for a brighter, more resilient planet.
This is your wakeup call to catastrophic climate change
GIBSONS, B.C.—This is a stunning occurrence and an off-the-chart record. A tenth of a degree increase in a temperature record like this would be remarkable, but this lack of real winter in Canada broke the previous record by more than a full degree. For comparison, an individual’s rise in temperature by the same amount would […]
MPs, experts say costs linked to frequency of wildfires, severity of weather events to increase without more climate action
According to senior climatologist David Phillips, 184,493 sq km of woodland went up in smoke across Canada in 2023—the equivalent of nearly one and a half times the size of the Maritime provinces.
Heavy fuel oil ban coming July 1, Inuit Nunangat communities still vulnerable to marine spills
Alarmingly, Canada’s largest Arctic bulk shipping carrier’s yearly report shows a nearly 60 per cent increase in heavy fuel oil use from 2022 to 2023. This is the opposite trend required to clean up Arctic shipping.
Opposition to federal EV standard could cost $90-billion in health benefits
In addition to tackling climate change and improving health outcomes, the EV standard also delivers gains for business and the broader economy.
A little more hope for the climate
Solar, wind, and nuclear power are already good alternatives to fossil fuels, and now a promising new contender is emerging.
