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Two workers in hard hats labour on the framing of a building.

Canada’s nuclear ambitions need fuel security, not just new reactors

A man in navy coveralls with reflective strips leans over a shiny sheet of steel.

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

The span is painted turquoise and is surrounded by a rock wall.

Why Canada’s northern energy infrastructure is failing

A data centre with rows of servers and floating figures representing digital data streams.

Canada needs to develop its own AI computing power

Saskatchewan power line Alt text: Power line runs through the flat Prairie landscape.

Saskatchewan needs a framework for Crown infrastructure deals

The Pickering Nuclear Generating Station stretches along the shore of Lake Ontario, with several dome-shaped reactor buildings under a cloudy sky, viewed from a rocky foreground by the water.

To enrich or not to enrich nuclear fuel: Canada’s dilemma

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

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

The problem with low-carbon fuels for road freight

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.

The screen is a large billboard sitting high above the ground next to a few tall buildings along a tree-lined street. In the distance are two temples with curved roofs with a green-covered mountain behind them.

Canada has to be more than a “bridgehead” to North America for South Korea

Canada needs to start seeing Africa as a collaborator

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

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

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

A non-descript steel box painted in two tones of green that appears to be about the size of an extra-tall two-car garage with a yellow ‘caution’ cone in front of it.

Ontario’s nuclear option is the wrong path to meet green energy targets

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

Four litre-sized clear containers of brown water.

The federal government must tackle water pollution from the oilsands

Budget needs to set an accelerated course for a low-carbon future

Unprecedented challenges for Canada’s mountains are driven by human activity

Making Greenland a full part of North America should be a priority for Canada

The rusted openings of dozens of rusting pipes stacked with a blue sky above.

Regulators should remain independent as Canada moves away from fossil fuels

It’s time to index fuel taxes

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