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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

A worker installs solar panels on the roof of a house in Scugog, Ontario.

Governments need to better reflect affordability concerns in climate policies

Why green construction is needed to affordably increase housing supply

Focus on renewables, not nuclear, to fuel Canada’s electric needs

An overhead view of black oil sands.

Foreign-owned oil companies in Canada hold key to climate change

The war on cars

A man wears a mask as he crosses an intersection. The sky is a haze of pale orange, with low visibility a few blocks away. The street is four lanes, filled with cars, trucks and people crossing at the crosswalk.

The U.K.’s approach to climate governance can instruct Canada’s ambitions

With mountains in the distance, and a forest of tight, tall evergreens in the foreground, two excavators dig a section of flat earth next to the blue-green water nearby. A load of earth fills a dump truck. Three tractors sit a small distance away.

Supporting Canadian LNG projects is good for the economy and the planet

Defining fossil fuel projects by climate impact is critical

Ottawa must think carefully about subsidies for oil and gas emission reductions

Cash-flow modeling shows carbon capture and storage can help meet climate goals

Governments more ambitious than Canadians on electrification

High in the air on a cloudy day, two men in orange uniforms and hardhats work on the fixtures at the top of a power pole connected to high-tension wires. Each man is standing in a mechanical bucket that’s been raised from a hydro truck. A few stray wires are dangling.

Four conditions for the new Clean Electricity Investment Tax Credit

How to mandate clean heat in our buildings

Finding pathways out of Ontario’s hydro and climate mess

Metal tubes and vents and steel supports form a structure several storeys high, with sunlight streaming in through the gaps.

Energy productivity first. Then focus on production

Fire blazes brightly on a tree-covered hill at night.

The banking meltdown is an omen for an even bigger risk: climate chaos

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