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Environmental racism: Canada must move from recognition to repair

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A Canada-led clean trade pact would show that middle powers mean business

A wind turbine next to a coal-fired power plant with smokestacks belching smoke and power lines in the background.

Two uncomfortable climate truths

One of the signs held up says “help me now” and has a blue and green drawing of a crying planet earth.

Beyond carbon pricing: a fairer way to drive climate policy

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Making homes affordable while cutting emissions in Canada

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When a major employer closes, the whole community feels it 

Rows of agricultural fields are partly submerged.

Why is climate adaptation so difficult for Canada?

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Why new EVs alone won’t deliver Canada’s biggest health gains

Three trucks with cargo containers drive into an area with stacks of containers.

The problem with low-carbon fuels for road freight

A paramedic stands among eight or nine patients in a hallway.

The end-of-life care, environment and health system ‘polycrisis’ needs a new approach

Dark mist swirls on a white sky, with dark mountains all around. Dark lichen-covered boulders sit amid golden tall grass in the foreground.

Looking North: Pension funds are key to developing Canada’s critical minerals

Co-creating cities through Indigenous knowledge and nature-based solutions

Eight people hold the edges of a banner that says “We are here to protect water.” The banner is orange, blue, red and white, and has an illustration of a fish with a heart.

Environmental impact reviews should take a more regional perspective

A brown paper bag filled with vegetables is laid out on a dark grey stone background. Visible are a bottle of milk, loaf of bread, lettuce, an avocado, tomatoes, cucumber, carrots, mushroom, lemon, orange, eggs, broccoli and an apple.

A grocer’s code of conduct isn’t a silver bullet. The right to food comes first.

A huge pile of plastic containers of various shapes and colors is compacted in a landfill for export.

Where does our plastic waste go?

A lone figure with a tank strapped to his back walks in the midst of a vast expanse of green rice fields with a few trees in the background.

Canadian expertise could help secure Vietnam’s threatened Mekong River Delta

A young boy on a bike rides past a three-storey light-grey stucco apartment building with balconies. The windows are small and square. Hedges line the first floor.

Why Canada needs a rental-unit energy report card

Support for sovereignty in Quebec: the role of identity, culture and language

Pierre Poilievre on stage speaking into a microphone wearing a black T-shirt with the slogan “Axe the Tax.”

A Conservative government may axe the carbon tax but then may have to bring it back

The growing burden of sustainability standards

Two roofers are bent over the plywood-covered roofs of a set of two-storey townhouses clad in pressboard, some of them covered in deep-blue and white membrane material.

Ontario’s Keeping Energy Costs Down Act will do the exact opposite

The Big Nickel is a huge sculpture depicting the five-cent piece. It’s set on two round pillars, all of it made of nickel. Only the bottom half of the “nickel” is visible.

For critical minerals, it’s better to talk about SDGs than ESG

A small river snakes through a lush landscape with several ponds and swales, with a town, agricultural land, and mountains in the background.

Nature-based solutions are critical to dealing with climate change

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The federal government must tackle water pollution from the oilsands

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