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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 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

Ottawa’s climate strategy must be led by a coalition of the most trusted

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