For over two decades I have evaluated promises by Canadian politicians to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. My work would be straightforward if a politician committed to a rising carbon...
Every day there are thousands of Canadians who are suffering as a direct result of wildfires, flooding or other climate-related illnesses. They are reclaiming their basements from mould, because...
Les inondations printanières de 2017 et de 2019 ont constitué un signal de réveil au Québec. Elles ont mis en lumière des retards évidents dans notre gestion des crues...
Grâce à la montée du prix mondial du pétrole ― interrompue brièvement par la récession de 2008 ― et aux prix particulièrement élevés et stables de 2010 à 2014,...
In Canada, decision-making on energy policy, energy regulation and individual projects has become increasingly challenging and subject to a highly polarized public debate. This state of affairs limits our...
In a territory where cost of living is king in political discourse, the government of the Northwest Territories’ measured opposition to the government of Canada’s carbon tax proposal in...
Manitoba elected a Progressive Conservative government in 2016 that had explicitly held out the prospect of carbon pricing in its platform. At the time, it looked as if Manitoba...
Although economists favour carbon pricing as the most efficient way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the policy has taken an unpredictable path in Canada. With four constitutional challenges and...
(This article has been translated into French.) Much has been written about Ontario’s and Alberta’s decisions in the past year to reverse course and eliminate their carbon pricing systems. Until...
The issue of climate change, and how best to address it, is one that activates a number of society’s underlying fault lines, be they ideological, regional or even generational....
