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Multiple generations of little multi-coloured animated blobs.

Guardianship governance: representing future generations in decision-making

Close-up shots of the group of young people and children standing in front of a stone building during an outdoor public gathering.

Children’s rights: How to make justice truly accessible

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

Mark Carney speaking at a podium, viewed from the side, with dark background.

Carney’s industrial bet: Building Canada’s future while cutting the public service

Dirt roads ribbon a brown landscape in the foreground with a large terraced open pit cut into the ground in the background.

What 50 years of buried data tell us about Canada’s mining oversight

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

An aerial view of Jasper, with several sections of the town now gravel pads.

Canada’s economic success is at risk from weak climate adaptation

Canada needs to change the focus of its education aid to South Asia

An orca whale breaches in view of snow-topped Mount Baker in the Salish Sea in the San Juan Islands, Wash.

Canada must commit to a nature and biodiversity accountability act

A plume of dense white smoke risks from dark green and brown hills and blows across the frame from right to left. Two valleys with bodies of water and buildings are visible in the distance.

Put out wildfires before they begin with Indigenous fire stewardship

Workforce development is the missing piece in the transition to net-zero

Energy density matters

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?

Charred tree stumps are pictured on blackened terrain in front of an escarpment.

What European wildfires tell us about our real climate challenge

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

A green transition should prioritize the ocean’s carbon sinks over deep-sea mining

Canada needs to correct course ahead of COP27

Canada needs to help farmers transition to low-carbon practices

Zero-emissions electricity by 2035 is possible

Sanctions against Russia can be a dangerously inflexible instrument

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