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Person at a laptop handling a stylus while a caption overlaying the image says "buy sell carbon credit."

One simple fix for Canada’s industrial carbon pricing systems

The metal structure is several storeys high with a metal ladder on one side leading to the top.

What is going on with Alberta’s climate-change strategy?

An overhead view of a tanker stopped in open water along the B.C. coast.

Rethinking Canada’s oil tanker ban for a new era of reconciliation

Seen from above, a combine passes diagonally through the field, which looks like a light-brown rug.

Reimagining the future Canadian economy in a changing world

Green smoke rises of a glob of molten copper.

Canadian critical mineral policy has evolved and now it’s time to level up

Two men walk in a vast parking lot of bulldozers, excavators, dump trucks and front-end loaders among many other pieces of equipment.

Bulldozer or bystander? Canada’s stakes in the new global economy 

A dozen bundles of copper wire tied together with white string.

New approach needed in mining critical minerals

Carney stands at a podium on the tarmac. Behind him is several hundred soldiers in olive-green uniforms, and behind them are two white jets. A row of media and cameras on tripods is facing Carney.

Greening the military: Why defence spending must align with climate action

Canada needs to keep pace with the U.S. in the transition to electric vehicles

Ontario’s deepening hydro mess

Zero-emissions electricity by 2035 is possible

Sanctions against Russia can be a dangerously inflexible instrument

Le marché québécois de l’électricité doit s’ouvrir

Le Québec n’est pas prêt pour la transition énergétique

Vladimir Putin scratches his chin and looks to the side while he stands at a podium with the flags of both countries hanging behind him.

Could Putin unleash a nuclear weapon?

Canada’s ineffective building energy regulations are the elephant in the warming room

A gas plant near Cochrane Alberta is pictured in front of a snow-capped mountain range.

Canada should focus on green, not blue, hydrogen

A beige cluster of industrial buildings sits next to the water’s edge.

Time for Canada to commit to nuclear power

The Conservatives and carbon pricing

Five lanes of traffic on a road with dense stands of trees on both sides.

Slippery and steeper: the path to our 2030 emissions target

An airplane wing frames the scene of Trudeau airport terminal below, with dozens of aircraft parked at the gates of the terminal.

The shocking rise of aviation emissions

Europe, energy security, and a new role for Canada

Retraining workers will be essential for our net-zero goals

Putin’s war on Ukraine dictates new priorities for energy security

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