National-interest infrastructure needs to be climate proof
Canada is rightfully focused on increasing its competitiveness to support trade (both interprovincial and international) and drive economic growth. But here’s the thing: it’s not just new American unpredictability that poses a threat to our competitiveness. Escalating climate risks can undermine our nation-building efforts just as gravely. And conversely, proactively building resilience into those efforts […]
Q&A | How a plastics pollution treaty can send a ‘crucial market signal’
Karen Wirsig of Environmental Defence says the recent UN summit on the subject was ‘horribly mismanaged.’
AI as Canada’s green catalyst—but at what cost?
Governments need to fully integrate AI electricity demand into renewable energy planning to ensure growth doesn’t come at the environment’s expense.
Canada must join forces with allies to stop the pollution threatening our health and environment
As most of the world moves away from plastic, Canada must not lock into a bygone economy and industry.
Carney should heed his own advice from his bestselling book, Value(s)
Clean-energy projects—building out the grid, supporting renewable and other clean-tech investment, and financing efficiency—can deliver on affordability, growth, and sustainability goals. Carney and his key ministers should keep a copy of Value(s) by their bedsides.
Reality check: Canada’s nation-building must ditch fossil fantasies
We can’t afford to waste public money on a declining industry. Instead of locking in more risky oil and gas projects, Canada must redirect investment towards clean energy infrastructure.
The $25,000 fine for violating Nova Scotia woods ban ‘not high enough,’ says Grit MP Fancy-Landry: ‘people really need to wake the hell up’
As fires burn out of control in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, Liberal MP Jessica Fancy-Landry says the ban on entering forests is not about politics or control, but about safety.
Carbon removal technology is more than just a climate solution
This is nation-building that makes sense—economically, environmentally, and socially.
Let’s get serious about tackling global scourge of plastic pollution
The treaty that surfaces from the UN International Negotiating Committee must reduce plastic getting into aquatic ecosystems at all points along the supply chain.
In the midst of a national climate crisis, Carney’s government falls silent
The words ‘climate change’ have barely passed Carney’s lips, nor did they feature in communiqués from June’s G7 summit in Alberta. It has been left to premiers, mayors, and Indigenous leaders to hold press conferences, comfort evacuees, and highlight the frightening reality of more intense, more widespread, more merciless fires.
