Buried in the budget: a potential breakthrough in meeting Canada’s net-zero goals
Budget 2024’s support of carbon removal procurement as a climate solution is a welcome breath of fresh air.
We need to bring back extensive urban, inter-urban rail and buses: letter writer
Re: “EV battery fires are a global problem that we need to address in Canada,” (The Hill Times, April 15, opinion piece). I agree with the opinion expressed by Josipa Petrunic that some planning for eventual fires needs to be done. The author points out stricter controls on battery design and sourcing. However, I think the […]
All eyes on Ottawa: the world comes together to address plastic pollution
The plastics industry recognizes that we cannot continue treating plastics as an afterthought once we have used them. Plastics belong in the economy, not in the environment.
Sustainable development, here and now
Universities across Canada are generating solutions to support green technology development and deployment.
Rallying against the blaze: uniting Canadians to fight climate change
There is an urgent need to address climate change, the root cause of the wildfire crisis, across all jurisdictions.
How green was this budget?
Being better on climate policy than the Official Opposition is too low a bar for a confidence vote.
First they came for the carbon tax, are electric vehicles next?
Canadian politicians at all levels have a choice: continue supporting a still-lucrative but damaging fossil fuel industry, or summon the courage and foresight to boost funding for the clean, proven technologies they claim to favour.
Beef farmers seek exemption from federal carbon price in March dominated by environment lobbying
Bill C-234, sponsored by Conservative MP Ben Lobb, proposes an exemption to the federal carbon tax for farmers on propane and natural gas used for grain drying.
To stop plastic pollution, stop producing it
At the 2023 Global Plastics Treaty negotiation session in Nairobi, the fossil fuel and chemical industry’s lobbyists outnumbering the combined delegates from 70 of the smallest nations. The UN must disclose the number and nature of the industry lobbyists in Ottawa, and establish a conflict-of-interest policy.
The federal carbon-pricing plan’s broken promise to small business
Almost none of the billions of dollars collected in carbon tax revenues have found their way back to SMEs since 2019, leaving them disillusioned and struggling to keep up with the rising cost of doing business.
