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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

Carney walks across a clearing in the forest. An excavator and roller sit nearby.

Canada’s industrial ambitions require robust environmental governance

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?

: Danielle Smith (left) and Mark Carney stand posing with copies of their memorandum of understanding with Alberta and Canadian flags in the background.

A weak carbon-price floor will not fix Alberta’s emissions market

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

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

A single Canada goose in a green field.

Canada’s nature strategy needs a farmer-led conservation pillar

Pothole in a Montreal's street.

Cities are closer to Canada’s problems than they are to the money

A baseball diamond in the foreground with a chemical plant in the background.

Environmental racism: Canada must move from recognition to repair

An oil pump in the foreground with wind turbines in the background.

Optimizing Canada’s policy toolbox for clean growth

A critical look at critical minerals

The net-zero shell game

Heritage properties need not be sacrificed for housing growth

The circular opportunity to fix food waste

Too soon to celebrate progress in reducing methane gas emissions

Green beans, potatoes, carrots and corn are sorted into plastic bags for distribution. 

How gleaning food addresses greenhouse gas emissions and food insecurity

Rising electricity demand will complicate electrification and decarbonization

Moving Canadian municipalities to the forefront of decarbonization

Printed promotional materials for the federal government’s Critical Minerals Strategy and a decision allowing the construction of a small modular nuclear reactor.

Federal gifts for the nuclear and mining industries

The good and bad news from a public opinion researcher

Home decarbonization requires tailored policies

Emissions from destruction of nature hidden by rhetoric

Brownfield redevelopment is a better alternative than urban sprawl

Four steps to jump-start Canadian climate policy

Brown, unadorned, mostly windowless building several stories high, with white dome-covered long structures nearby, sits near the shore of a waterway with sand and small boulders scattered around.

The persistent shortcomings of nuclear power

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