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A bridge is in the foreground and a small passenger plane in the background amid an orange haze.

Canada’s buildings can do more than consume electricity

Water rushing through dam sluices.

Ontario’s new hydro rules give Indigenous equity real weight

Chart showing the volume of crude oil going to the Saint John refinery from other countries.

Getting Canadian oil to Atlantic Canada is in the national interest

Carney and Smith are in a warehouse with tall shelves and a tractor.

Financial markets can’t drive Canada’s climate transition alone

Three men sit, kneel or stand on the roof of a home covered in metal brackets.

Canada’s electricity strategy is overlooking its most powerful asset

A United Conservative Party of Alberta sign at a podium is shown in front of the Alberta flag.

Grievances in Alberta: how deep, how broad?

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

Sur une mer calme et turquoise avec des îles au loin, un immense pétrolier portant quatre conteneurs ronds sur son pont avance au ralenti, avec un plus petit navire industriel attaché à ses côtés.

LNG boom or bust?

Getting Canada’s proposed clean electricity regulations right to reverse our poor climate performance

Interregional planning is key to Canada’s hopes for successful energy transition

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

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