Voters want a financial system aligned with climate action
Requiring climate transition plans is one key policy, as is clarifying that group leaders should aim to help mitigate climate change and its resulting risks.
Climate-resilient infrastructure: a burning platform
Recent climate-related disasters are shining a bright light on another serious problem: their huge negative impact on critical infrastructure, deepened by infrastructure failings.
Environmental group wants clean power regulations without delay, calls electricity sector concerns ‘scaremongering’
A final version of Clean Electricity Regulations, intended to help Canada achieve a net-zero electrical grid by 2035, are expected to be published later this year.
Nearly half of Canada’s public servants are now millennials, but Gen X holds onto management reins
Millennials’ ‘fingerprints’ are now on the federal public service, says Deloitte’s Stephen Harrington, while a Carleton University professor says the demographic could be better divided into those hired pre- or post-pandemic.
Western politicians turn to walls, deportations as public cools on migration
The current flow of migrants crossing Europe’s borders is only a fraction of what’s to come once climate change forces increasing movement of desperate people whose homes are no longer livable.
Canadian security in a 21st century world
Unlike the threats of past millennia, planetary warming could ultimately lead to the destruction of what sustains human civilization and life as we know it.
Green transition offers a chance for Canadian wealth creation
Providing patient, long-term capital for our future winners is critical.
March towards clean electricity grid draws out advocacy in environment-focused July lobbying
Final Clean Electricity Regulations, intended to support a net-zero electricity grid, are expected to be published later this year.
Fossil fuel sector lobbying analysis shows ‘relentless’ advocacy, says environmental group’s report
Representatives of fossil fuel firms and industry groups held an average of nearly five meetings per working day with public office holders in 2023, according to Environmental Defence Canada.
It’s time to fix Canada’s Species at Risk Act
There are obvious flaws in the legislation that need to be fixed urgently, both for our environment and our economy.
