Will the real climate leaders please stand up?
Beyond COP28, the question is, what story will parties tell on fighting climate change when the next election comes? Will they be able to say they reigned in oil and gas emissions? Or will it be the same story about carbon pricing, more unkept promises and missed targets?
Senators caught in the middle as government and opposition dig in their heels on carbon tax exemption for farmers
Conservative MP Ben Lobb’s private member’s bill made it through the House last March with support from all opposition MPs. Any amendments in the Senate would send it back, and Conservatives say the Liberals will bury it.
Big costs sink flagship nuclear project and will sink future small modular reactor projects, too
Adverse economics killed the flagship NuScale SMR project. There is no reason to believe the costs of SMR designs proposed in Canada will be any lower. Are government officials hearing the alarm bells?
The significant and existential threat to Arctic sovereignty from climate change
Strong, Secure, and Engaged had no new initiatives to increase natural disaster fighting capabilities, leaving the women and men in the Armed Forces without meaningful investments in the training and equipment required to combat this growing threat.
How to think about the carbon tax setback?
It may be tempting to view the suspension of the carbon tax on oil heating as a lack of courage by political decision-makers. But the federal government’s decision also illustrates the limits of a climate strategy built around carbon pricing.
‘Everything is not going right for them’: feds’ confusing messaging on pause on home heating oil carbon pricing puts them ‘on the defensive,’ says Nanos
It could be difficult for the Liberal Party to outflank the Conservatives on affordability issues and to recover in the polls, says president and Innovative Research Group founder Greg Lyle.
The real threat to our food supply and public health is lack of regulation
If Canada had more robust laws and regulations ensuring animal welfare on farms, we would have no need for whistleblowers.
Canada should be using heat pumps with low GWP refrigerants, writes Victoria, B.C., reader
Re: “Canada’s climate policy, not just the carbon tax, is on a knife’s edge,” (The Hill Times, Nov. 14, by Susan Riley). There is one big problem with heat pumps, ignored by both federal and provincial efforts to boost heat pump use. The refrigerants used in most Canadian heat pumps are potent greenhouse gases, with global […]
Yet another tranche of propaganda from the oil industry: McElroy
Re: “Lowering Emissions while Growing Production: Conventional Oil & Natural Gas,” CPP ad, (The Hill Times, Nov. 14, 2023). Yet another tranche of propaganda from the oil industry. Another desperate ad to confuse the public and lead the world deeper into disaster. Mere days from COP28, and our oil industry is bragging about increasing production. […]
Advocates look for Canada to lead at COP28, but say credibility depends on meeting domestic commitments
Canada has been ‘much more accommodating’ to the concerns of developing countries in recent months than the United States has been, says policy analyst Pratishtha Singh.
