We all have to keep plastics out of our lakes and rivers
Researchers in Toronto found an average of 123 microplastics in one serving of freshwater fish, vastly more than the nine microplastics ingested in a serving of grocery store Alaska pollock found in a study by the same authors published earlier this year.
Carney’s advice to Liberals puts low-carbon future above all
Mark Carney made it clear he will be doubling down on the need for the government and Canadians to move heaven and earth to build a low-carbon economy.
Governing Liberals look to channel their inner opposition party as they go head-to-head against Conservatives in new fall session
Despite being the governing party, Government House Leader Karina Gould says Liberals will hold Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre ‘to account’ this fall session. Meanwhile, MPs and cabinet ministers tell The Hill Times about their legislative priorities this fall.
Global warming remains in uncharted territory
The trend in average global temperature has been racing upwards for decades, breaching the pre-industrial target for more than a whole year.
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.
